Johnny Cash Quotes

1. “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.”

— Johnny Cash

2. “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

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3. “Life is rough so you gotta be tough.”

— Johnny Cash

4. “There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”

— Johnny Cash

5. “What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.”

— Johnny Cash

6. “We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.”

— Johnny Cash

7. “My arms are too short to box with God.”

— Johnny Cash

8. “As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.”

— Johnny Cash

9. “Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”

— Johnny Cash

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10. “Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”

— Johnny Cash

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11. “I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.”

— Johnny Cash

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12. “Life and love go on, let the music play.”

— Johnny Cash

13. “I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.”

— Johnny Cash

14. “When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.”

— Johnny Cash

15. “Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need.”

— Johnny Cash

16. “I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? E veryone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.”

— Johnny Cash

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17. “The more I learn, the more excited I get.”

— Johnny Cash

18. “I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.”

— Johnny Cash

19. “If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.”

— Johnny Cash

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20. “All music comes from God.”

— Johnny Cash

21. “I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?”

— Johnny Cash

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22. “I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”

— Johnny Cash

23. “Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”

— Johnny Cash

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24. “Get rhythm when you get the blues.”

— Johnny Cash

25. “A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.”

— Johnny Cash

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26. “The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.”

— Johnny Cash

27. “I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.”

— Johnny Cash

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28. “Of travel I’ve had my share, man, I’ve been everywhere.”

— Johnny Cash

29. “I don’t like it, but I guess things happen that way.”

— Johnny Cash

30. “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

31. “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

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32. “If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.”

— Johnny Cash

33. “For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.”

— Johnny Cash

34. “I came to believe in a power much higher than I.”

— Johnny Cash

35. “Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.”

— Johnny Cash

36. “The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.”

— Johnny Cash

37. “Some gal would giggle and I’d get red, and some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head. I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.”

— Johnny Cash

38. “When you sing, you pray twice.”

— Johnny Cash

39. “Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.”

— Johnny Cash

40. “Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.”

— Johnny Cash

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41. “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

42. “I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.”

— Johnny Cash

43. “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

44. “Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”

— Johnny Cash

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45. “No matter how much you’ve sinned, no matter how much you’ve stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you’ve got from God, don’t give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.”

— Johnny Cash

46. “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

47. “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

48. “Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.”

— Johnny Cash

49. “Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.”

— Johnny Cash

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50. “The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.”

— Johnny Cash