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
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Many times we've shared our thoughts, but did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got? — 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
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget… — 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
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — 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
There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation,… — 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