Johnny Cash quotes - page 3

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read. (Johnny Cash)
Well, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday and tell the world that everything's okay / But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back / 'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black. View quote
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This morning, with her, having coffee. View quote
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The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. View quote
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Listen to the words long written down, When the man comes around. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her. View quote
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I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian. View quote
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When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. View quote
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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! (Johnny Cash)
I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha and Omega's Kingdom come. View quote
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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. View quote
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For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide. View quote
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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. View quote
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I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. (Johnny Cash)
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. View quote
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God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God. View quote
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