Johnny Cash Quotes

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

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.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

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

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

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.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

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.

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

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

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.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

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.

Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.

Oh, 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, Till things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.

I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

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

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

My arms are too short to box with God.