Johnny Cash Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Mother, Song

• My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Television, Quitting

  Source: blankonblank.org

• My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Art, Hands

• 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.

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

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Voice

• My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the gift, I might be able to do that. So she took in washing. She got a washing machine in 1942 as soon as we got electricity and she took in washing. She washed the schoolteacher's clothes and anybody she could and sent me for singing lessons for $3 per lesson.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Clothes, Singing

  Source: wrvo.org

• [My mother] made the money to send me.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Made

  Source: wrvo.org

• I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Boys, Guitar

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