Johnny Cash Quotes

Because you're mine, I walk the line.

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

When you sing, you pray twice.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

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.

It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

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

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

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

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

All music comes from God.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

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.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

I'm thrilled to death with life.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

I love the young people.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

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.

Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.