Famous Quotes

:: After about three lessons the voice teacher said, “Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.

:: I’d like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything is o.k. But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. Until things are brighter, I’m the Man in Black.

:: 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 off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

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

:: That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

:: 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 and he doesn’t know it!

:: When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, I’ll write it.

:: Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

:: The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
~ Johny Cash on Himself

:: 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. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

:: Because you’re mine/ I walk the line.

:: Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
~ Johny Cash on Success

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

:: 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 just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

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

:: A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

:: 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.
~ Johnny Cash On Personal Limitations

:: 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 you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

And here is my Best and favorite Johny Cash Quote:
“The best way to say anything is just to say it.”