If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
JOHNNY CASHThe 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 I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
-
-
Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
JOHNNY CASH -
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
JOHNNY CASH -
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
JOHNNY CASH -
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.
JOHNNY CASH -
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.
JOHNNY CASH -
If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
JOHNNY CASH -
They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.
JOHNNY CASH -
I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.
JOHNNY CASH -
It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
JOHNNY CASH -
Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
JOHNNY CASH -
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
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.
JOHNNY CASH -
Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
JOHNNY CASH -
When you sing, you pray twice.
JOHNNY CASH -
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
JOHNNY CASH -
It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
JOHNNY CASH -
You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
JOHNNY CASH -
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
JOHNNY CASH -
When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
JOHNNY CASH -
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
JOHNNY CASH -
Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.
JOHNNY CASH -
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
JOHNNY CASH -
A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
JOHNNY CASH -
Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
JOHNNY CASH -
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
JOHNNY CASH -
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s 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.
JOHNNY CASH