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 More Quotes by Johnny Cash More Quotes From Johnny Cash Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand. Johnny Cash soul hands jesus 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 hours studios knows Understand your man, meditate on it. Johnny Cash advice men He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm. Johnny Cash dog heaven death I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on. Johnny Cash denim black color I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere. Johnny Cash cocoons warm song I wear the black for those who never read. Johnny Cash black I came to believe in a power much higher than I Johnny Cash higher believe It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture. Johnny Cash fleeting furniture clothes Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money. Johnny Cash rich worry mean My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I didn't have the problem some people do who say, "I don't know how to pray." I used the songs to communicate with God. . . . To me, songs were the telephone to heaven, and I tied up the line quite a bit. Johnny Cash prayer song boys I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs. Johnny Cash hard-work body jobs When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry. Johnny Cash cry My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables. Johnny Cash cutting land father He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man. Johnny Cash strong men hands 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 records able said 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 orange believe rooms I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice. Johnny Cash voice song children [My mother] made the money to send me. Johnny Cash mother made It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for him that when I called him, I thought, I'm going to get on Sun Records. So I called him and he turned me down flat. Then two weeks later, I got turned down again. He told me over the phone that he couldn't sell gospel music so - as it was independent, not a lot of money. Johnny Cash independent phones two
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