Man Music Country Legend Deep 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. - Johnny Cash
Right 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
People Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. - Johnny Cash
Limitations 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. - Johnny Cash
Talent Sense Writing People It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. - Johnny Cash
Death Man 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
Money World Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Maimonides
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. - Soren Kierkegaard