Johnny Cash Quotes - Page 6

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• After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Teacher, Voice

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• That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now.

  Johnny Cash

  Names, Guy, Said

  Source: wrvo.org

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• 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.

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• I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Watches, Shots

  "Folsom Prison Blues" (song) (1956)

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• 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

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• I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

  Johnny Cash

  Appreciation, Sea Breeze, Scent

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• So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

  Johnny Cash

  Kids, Simple, Choices

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• We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did "Folsom Prison Blues," which they thought was their song - you know? - and "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry." And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Two, Hey

  Source: wrvo.org

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• However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

  Johnny Cash

  Stars

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• My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

  Johnny Cash

  Family, Home, Guitar

  Song: A Boy Named Sue, Album: At San Quentin, 1969

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• 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.

  Johnny Cash

  Dream, Growing Up, Air

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

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• You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

  Johnny Cash

  Dog, Men, Knows

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• [Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off.

  Johnny Cash

  Giving, Lines, Way

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

  Johnny Cash

  Talking, February, Prison

  Source: wrvo.org

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• This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

  Johnny Cash

  Hurt, Brother, People

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• I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself.

  Johnny Cash

  Guitar, Together, Musician

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Cocoons, Warm

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• I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

  Johnny Cash

  Years, Ends, Unshakable Faith

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• So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.

  Johnny Cash

  Morning, Night, Flags

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

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• San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

  Johnny Cash

  Wall, Fall, Order

  Song: San Quentin

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• My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

  Johnny Cash

  Dad, Father, Men

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

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• 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.

  Johnny Cash

  Wearing Black, Clothes, Attractive

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• I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

  Johnny Cash

  Thinking, Style, Unusual

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

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• When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Records, Feels Right

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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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