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 Read Quote
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her. Johnny Cash Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don’t know. It’s life. Johnny Cash Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. Johnny Cash Read Quote
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 Read Quote
