Johnny Cash

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

— Johnny Cash

I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never…

— Johnny Cash

When you sing, you pray twice.

— Johnny Cash

You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not…

— Johnny Cash

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

— Johnny Cash

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing…

— Johnny Cash

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny…

— Johnny Cash

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that…

— Johnny Cash

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

— Johnny Cash

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

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

— Johnny Cash

I love the young people.

— Johnny Cash

“This morning, with her, having coffee”

— Johnny Cash

I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

— Johnny Cash

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go…

— Johnny Cash

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

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

I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time…

— Johnny Cash

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February…

— Johnny Cash

I'm thrilled to death with life.

— Johnny Cash

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was…

— Johnny Cash

My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the…

— Johnny Cash

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

— Johnny Cash

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

— Johnny Cash

I wear the black for those who never read.

— Johnny Cash