Quotes by Johnny Cash

“After about three lessons the voice teacher said, Dont take voice lessons. Do it your way.”

“Lameness is an impediment to the body but not to the will.”

My arms are too short to box with God.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. Its still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others ideas.

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.

Theres 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.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You dont try to forget the mistakes, but you dont dwell on it. You dont let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Six foot six he stood on the groundHe weighed two hundred and thirty-five poundsBut I saw that giant of a man brought downTo his knees by love

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You dont try to forget the mistakes, but you dont dwell on it. You dont let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

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.

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 turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all Ive got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

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

Gods the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. Thats solely in the hands of God.

Im very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.