Al Cash Quotes

I've always explored various areas of society.

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.

[My mother] made the money to send me.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

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

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

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.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

Work ... is redemption.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Six foot six he stood on the groundHe weighed two hundred and thirty-five poundsBut I saw that giant of a man brought downTo his knees by love

It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition.

When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person’s freedom.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Opportunities don't just happen. You create them

It's not just about ideasit's about making ideas happenDO IT!