Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Johnny Cash
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 26
Died: 2003
Died: September 12
Actor
Autobiographer
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Kingsland
Arkansas
The Man in Black
John R. Cash
J. R. Cash
Heat
Hammer
Sadness
Hammers
Rose
Flame
White
Midnight
Strong
Asleep
Looks
Grey
Steel
Flames
More quotes by Johnny Cash
Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.
Johnny Cash
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Johnny Cash
What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?
Johnny Cash
You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.
Johnny Cash
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.
Johnny Cash
They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.
Johnny Cash
Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.
Johnny Cash
Rick Rubin came to my concert in Orange County, Calif. I believe this was, like, '83 when he first came and listened to the show. And then afterwards, I went in the dressing room and sat and talked to him.
Johnny Cash
Life and love go on, let the music play.
Johnny Cash
I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus
Johnny Cash
Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
Johnny Cash
Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.
Johnny Cash
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
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
I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
Johnny Cash
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Johnny Cash
It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.
Johnny Cash
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
Johnny Cash
Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.
Johnny Cash
Get rhythm when you get the blues.
Johnny Cash
