Top 120 Johnny Cash Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “When I was arrested I was dressed in black.”

— Johnny Cash

103. “However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain’t nobody like Elvis. Never was.”

— Johnny Cash

104. “I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.”

— Johnny Cash

105. “I’m so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I’ve got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I’ll put on denim. But almost everything I’ve got the black on.”

— Johnny Cash

106. “I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they’re no good. I don’t throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.”

— Johnny Cash

107. “Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love.”

— Johnny Cash

108. “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

109. “Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won’t answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.”

— Johnny Cash

110. “There’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.”

— Johnny Cash

111. “This morning, with her, having coffee.”

— Johnny Cash

112. “He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.”

— Johnny Cash

113. “You’ve got a song you’re singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you’ve got to make them think that you’re one of them sitting out there with them too. They’ve got to be able to relate to what you’re doing.”

— Johnny Cash

114. “I don’t have Paul’s calling – I’m not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ – but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.”

— Johnny Cash

115. “Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?”

— Johnny Cash

116. “When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.”

— Johnny Cash

117. “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

118. “Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.”

— Johnny Cash

119. “I wear the black for those who never read.”

— Johnny Cash

120. “If this were a movie I’d be the bad guy.”

— Johnny Cash

121. “Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I’ve worn black clothes ever since.”

— Johnny Cash

122. “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

123. “I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there’s a lot to be said for that.”

— Johnny Cash

124. “God Ain’t no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.”

— Johnny Cash

125. “I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don’t know. It’s life.”

— Johnny Cash

126. “Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.”

— Johnny Cash

127. “Truth, said the Master, cannot be hid But he didn’t say slap it in the face of my kids.”

— Johnny Cash

128. “I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.”

— Johnny Cash

129. “It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.”

— Johnny Cash

130. “Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you’ll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white.”

— Johnny Cash

131. “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

132. “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

133. “The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin’ was easy, where the fish were jumpin’, where the cotton grew high.”

— Johnny Cash