Johnny Cash Quotes - Page 7

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• My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I didn't have the problem some people do who say, "I don't know how to pray." I used the songs to communicate with God. . . . To me, songs were the telephone to heaven, and I tied up the line quite a bit.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Prayer, Boys

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• It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

  Johnny Cash

  Clothes, Fleeting, Furniture

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• I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

  Johnny Cash

  Bird, Cabins, Ponds

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• God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

  Johnny Cash

  Hands, Judging, Finals

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• I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Tenors, Knows

  Source: wrvo.org

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• 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.

  Johnny Cash

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.

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• It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

  Johnny Cash

  Play, Lines, Kind

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Records

  Source: wrvo.org

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• The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Years, Listening

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• [My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.

  Johnny Cash

  Father, Inspiration, Painting

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

  Johnny Cash

  Railroads, Pieces, Trilogies

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• Understand your man, meditate on it.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Advice

  Song: Understand Your Man

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• One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.

  Johnny Cash

  Guitar, One Day, Steps

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

  Johnny Cash

  Travel, Men, Share

  Song: I've Been Everywhere, Album: Unchained, 1996

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• He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm.

  Johnny Cash

  Death, Dog, Heaven

  Song: The Man Who Couldn't Cry, Album: American Recordings, 1994

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• I wear the black for those who never read.

  Johnny Cash

  Black

  Song: Man In Black

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• When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry.

  Johnny Cash

  Cry

  "Song: "Folsom Prison Blues " ("At Folsom Prison")". 1957.

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• I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Night

  Source: wrvo.org

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• There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Names, Ladders

  Johnny Cash (2004). “Johnny Cash, the Songs”

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• [My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Voice

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• I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

  Johnny Cash

  Religious, Jesus, Black

  Johnny Cash (2002). “The Very Best of Johnny Cash (Songbook)”, p.46, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I love the young people.

  Johnny Cash

  People, Young

  Source: www.npr.org

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• He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

  Johnny Cash

  Strong, Men, Hands

  Song: Don't Take Your Guns To Town, Album: The Fabulous Johnny Cash, 1959

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• He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

  Johnny Cash

  Order, Law, Jail

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• I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Song, Hands

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kbbi.org. November 24, 2016.

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