John R. Cash was an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. His genre-spanning songs and sound embraced country, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This Johnny Cash quotes will motivate you in life.
Best Johnny Cash Quotes
- “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
- “If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
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“Life is rough so you gotta be tough.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
- “Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.” ~ Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash quotes on life
- “Life and love go on, let the music play.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
- “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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“it’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
- “Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
- “Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable…but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.” ~ Johnny Cash
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“When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.
Life and love go on, let the music play.” ~ Johnny Cash - “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better …I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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 Quotes
- “Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” ~ Johnny Cash
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“As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “I found out that there
weren’t too many limitations,
if I did it my way.” ~ Johnny Cash - “I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read” ~ Johnny Cash
- “I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.” ~ Johnny Cash
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“Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.” ~ Johnny Cash”You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “Burn my Flag and I will shoot you……..but I’ll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
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“We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
- “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
- “You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “There’s unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it’s real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She’s always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody’s gone home and the lights are turned off, it’s just me and her.” ~ Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash quotes on June
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“The more I learn, the more excited I get.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “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
- “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
- “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.” ~ Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash quotes on love
- “Until things are brighter.. I’m the man in black.” ~ Johnny Cash
