Johnny Cash Quotes

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!

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

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.

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.

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.

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 wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge 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.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.

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

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

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

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

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.

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

it’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people