I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
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
You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . .… — 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
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day… — 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
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't… — 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
In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going… — 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
We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as… — 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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