Johnny Cash Quotes

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• You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but…
• Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
• Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
• You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found…
• How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm,…
• For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
• People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.
• I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.
• My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me.…
• The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to…
• 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, I wrote this…
• I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
• Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot…
• God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
• I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
• It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's…
• God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
• 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 to make them…
• 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 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.…

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