33 Amazing Johnny Cash Quotes

You’ve got a song you’re singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you’ve got to make them think that you’re one of them sitting out there with them too. They’ve got to be able to relate to what you’re doing. – Johnny Cash

Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’ —June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me – that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt. —Johnny Cash

Because you are mine , I walk the line

You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way. – Johnny Cash

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. – Johnny Cash

The More I Learn the more excited I get – Johnny Cash

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.” – Johnny Cash

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and love. And Mother. And God. – Johnny Cash

hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that’s real – Johnny Cash

No one else could have home the star Elvis was . Aint nobody like elvis Newer was – Johnny Cash

If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all. – Johnny Cash

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

“I thank god for all the freedoms we got here in this country, I cherish even the rights to burn the flag. But I tell you what, we also got the right to bear arms, and if you burn my flag, I’ll shoot you. But I’ll shoot you full of love like a good American.” – Johnny Cash

This Morning With here Having Coffee

You are the rose of my heart, You are the love of my life. A flower not fading nor falling apart, If you’re tired, rest your head on my arm. Rose of my heart.

When I record somebody else’s song, I have to make it my own or it doesn’t feel right. I’ll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn’t know it!

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

There’s no way around grief and loss: you can doge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left

They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home

Money can’t buy back your youth when you’re old / A friend when you’re lonely, or peace to your soul…”

The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.

If you don’t get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, and it starts your day differently.

Soon your sugar-daddies will all be gone. You’ll wake up some cold day and find you’re alone. You’ll call for me but I’m gonna tell you: “Bye, bye, bye, ” When I turn around and walk away, you’ll cry, cry, cry,

When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son, Always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry..

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man Read more at https://www.beliefnet.com/quotes/entertainment/j/johnny-cash/how-well-i-have-learned-that-there-is-no-fence-to.aspx#boc28yZdGU5Cs4uR.99