John R. “Johnny” Cash was one of the most influential singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is also one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide.
His genre-spanning songs and sound embraced country music, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. Most famous and inspirational quotes by Johnny Cash will enrich your perspective while encouraging you to face life’s challenges.
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Johnny Cash’s Legendary Quotes
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
If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way
Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.
I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television
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
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station
A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
This business I’m in is different. It’s special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we’re that close; somehow there’s been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other’s triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed it’s corny, I know, but it’s true. I’ve never experienced anything like this before. It’s great. It turns up the heat in life.
There’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
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.
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
God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
Life is rough so you gotta be tough
I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there’s a lot to be said for that.
No matter how much you’ve sinned, no matter how much you’ve stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you’ve got from God, don’t give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.
People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.
I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don’t know. It’s life
The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
It’s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it’s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
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.
