Once in a while a musician just doesn't have talent, he or
she has depth and understanding that seems almost spiritual
- and a few of the Johnny Cash quotes I've read suggest
that the man was one of these rare souls. Wondering what I
mean? These twelve quotes sum it up nicely...
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."
2. "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."
3. "Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash
causes all the trouble. They fight."
4. "What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know
goes away, in the end."
5. "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."
6. "I've probably had the equivalent of college in the
roads I've traveled since then, but it would have been
great to go from high school right into college to study
music and literature."
7. "Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.
I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour
out."
8. "When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too."
9. "Children, all your life, you will be faced with a
choice. You can choose love or hate... I choose love."
10. "It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the
wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't
look the way older folks think they should look. I'm
working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed
minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean
they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of
what's wrong with this world."
11. "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."
12. "I'd like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the
world that everything is o.k. But I'll try to carry off a
little darkness on my back. Until things are brighter, I'm
the Man in Black."
Some famous musicians are shallow, some care more about the
money than they do about the art. Johnny Cash was not one
of them. He was a man with a message and these twelve
Johnny Cash quotes give us a bit of insight into the man
behind the hypnotic voice.
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