Johnny Cash Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Johnny Cash

  Writing, Thinking, People

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

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

  Johnny Cash

  Reading, Writing, Shy

• I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Texas

  Source: wrvo.org

• 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

• 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

• When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Creativity

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

• I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.'

  Johnny Cash

  Christian, Writing, Thinking

• In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

  Johnny Cash

  Running, Song, Writing

  Source: wrvo.org

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