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Quotes By Johnny Cash

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Johnny Cash

Feb 26, 1932 - Sep 12, 2003

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

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.

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

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

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

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.

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.

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

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.

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.