Johnny Cash Quotes We’ve collected the best Johnny Cash Quotes. Use them as an inspiration. 1 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 2 People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country. Johnny Cash 3 Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. Johnny Cash 4 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 5 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 6 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. Johnny Cash 7 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 8 Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. Johnny Cash 9 I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. Johnny Cash 10 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 11 I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. Johnny Cash 12 When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. Johnny Cash 13 God’s the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That’s solely in the hands of God. Johnny Cash 14 I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian. Johnny Cash 15 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 16 I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue. Johnny Cash 17 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 18 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