Johnny Cash Quotes

As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.

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.

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.

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

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.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.

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!

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.

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.

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.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

God’s the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That’s solely in the hands of God.

For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.