1. “Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.” – Johnny Cash
2. “Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” – Johnny Cash
3. “Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” – Johnny Cash
4. “Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.” – Johnny Cash
5. “What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.” – Johnny Cash
6. “Life and love go on, let the music play.” – Johnny Cash
7. “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
8. “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
9. “Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.” – Johnny Cash
10. “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
11. “I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.” – Johnny Cash
12. “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.” – Johnny Cash
13. “There’s no more simple life with simple choices for the young.” – Johnny Cash
14. “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
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “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
19. “If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.” – Johnny Cash
20. “Get rhythm when you get the blues.” – Johnny Cash
21. “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
22. “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
23. “The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.” – Johnny Cash
24. “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
25. “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
26. “For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.” – Johnny Cash
27. “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
28. “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
29. “It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” – Johnny Cash
30. “You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.” – Johnny Cash
31. “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
32. “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
33. “Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful.” – Johnny Cash
34. “As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.” – Johnny Cash
35. “Life is rough so you gotta be tough.” – Johnny Cash
36. “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
37. “Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.” – Johnny Cash
38. “We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.” – Johnny Cash
39. “it’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people” – Johnny Cash
40. “I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.” – Johnny Cash
41. “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
42. “Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.” – Johnny Cash
43. “Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?” – Johnny Cash
44. “This morning, with her, having coffee.” – Johnny Cash
45. “Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable… but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.” – Johnny Cash
46. “It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.” – Johnny Cash
47. “The more I learn, the more excited I get.” – Johnny Cash
48. “The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.” – Johnny Cash
49. “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
50. “However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain’t nobody like Elvis. Never was.” – Johnny Cash
51. “If this were a movie, I’d be the bad guy.” – Johnny Cash
52. “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
53. “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.” – Johnny Cash
54. “When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, ‘You mean besides George Jones?’” – Johnny Cash
55. “God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.” – Johnny Cash
56. “We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.” – Johnny Cash
57. “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
58. “My arms are too short to box with God.” – Johnny Cash
59. “Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.” – Johnny Cash
60. “I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I’m 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.” – Johnny Cash
61. “The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.” – Johnny Cash
62. “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
63. “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
64. “You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.” – Johnny Cash
65. “Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.” – Johnny Cash
66. “I myself can’t go too long without real Southern fried chicken, skillet cornbread, and all the other wonderful staples of my home food.” – Johnny Cash
67. “It’s good to know who hates you, and it’s good to be hated by the right people.” – Johnny Cash
68. “Trust gets you killed. Love gets you hurt. And being real gets you hated.” – Johnny Cash
69. “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
70. “You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up… 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
71. “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.” – Johnny Cash
72. “I remember everything. What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone 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
73. “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
74. “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
75. “The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.” – Johnny Cash
76. “I came to believe in a power much higher than I.” – Johnny Cash
77. “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
78. “I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.” – Johnny Cash
79. “Somehow there’s been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other’s triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed — it’s corny, I know, but it’s true.” – Johnny Cash
80. “Understand your man, meditate on it.” – Johnny Cash
81. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.” – Johnny Cash