Quotes By Johnny Cash

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

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.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

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.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.