Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
My contract with mercury PolyGram Nashville was about to expire. And I never had really been happy. The company, the record company,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
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,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like my shoes. I'm thankful for the birds; I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I met Sam Phillips when he came in [studio] and I said, I'm John Cash. I'm the one who's been calling. And if you'd… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
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