Johnny Cash
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.Collection: Beer
I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.Collection: Bitter
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.Collection: Thinking
I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.Collection: Boots
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Fire
Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.Collection: Heart
I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.'Collection: Christian
God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.Collection: Religious
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.Collection: Song
If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourselfCollection: Political
Because you're mine, I walk the line.Collection: Country
All music comes from God.Collection: Music
When I was arrested I was dressed in blackCollection: Black
When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.Collection: Father
Because you’re mine, I walk the line.Collection: Country
I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.Collection: Mistake
I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? E veryone 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.Collection: Hurt
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?Collection: Sadness
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.Collection: Sadness
When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, ‘You mean besides George Jones?’Collection: Country
We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.Collection: Country