Johnny Cash Quotes

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.

If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

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 of territory, country music does.

For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.

There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

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 think that you’re one of them sitting out there with them too. They’ve got to be able to relate to what you’re doing.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.

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, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better …I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

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 from God, don’t give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.

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 out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.