Johnny Cash Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

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.

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.

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

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

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable…but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.

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.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.