Johnny Cash Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.”

“I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.”

“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.”

“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.”

“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.”