Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cashwas an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author, who was widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
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.'
I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.
You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.
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.
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.
Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.
When you sing, you pray twice.
When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.
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.