John Carter Cash Quotes

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John Carter Cash

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 3, 1970

Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.

John Carter Cash

My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.

John Carter Cash

I'm always writing my own music, recording my own music, even if I am 9/10 of the time recording stuff for other people. I'm still working on my own creative endeavors.

John Carter Cash

My father was a unique man, but he had a shyness about him.

John Carter Cash

I don't think anyone in the world could play my father, look just like him, act just like him, and make you believe he's Johnny Cash. Joaquin Phoenix gets as close as anybody I think ever could.

John Carter Cash

My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.

John Carter Cash

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

John Carter Cash

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.

John Carter Cash

I believe Dad will be respected in 300 years, like Beethoven. As will Elvis, as will the Carter Family, as will Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams.

John Carter Cash

Personally (and I believe I can speak for my sisters on this), I am against any organization or individual who believes they are superior to and/or may wish harm upon another because of race, ethnic background, religion, or sexual orientation. We also believe in the potential unification of humanity as a whole.

John Carter Cash

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

John Carter Cash

There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.

John Carter Cash

Within the first six years of my life, if asked what Dad was to me I would have emphatically responded: 'Dad is fun!' This was my simple foundation for my enduring relationship with my father.

John Carter Cash

Dad never really got over Jack's death and was deeply inspired by his brother throughout his life to delve deeper into his own faith.

John Carter Cash

My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired to care for me. Her love and discipline had a big influence on my upbringing.

John Carter Cash

My father claimed no political affiliation. He supported Al Gore because he knew him as a human being. He supported Lamar Alexander, who was the governor of Tennessee, who was a Republican. It was based on the individual. He didn't believe in politics. He based his support for someone on their heart and their integrity.

John Carter Cash

My father was always respectful to my grandfather. I really wanted that to be known because I never saw him disrespect my grandfather, and I never saw them have a cross word.

John Carter Cash

He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.

John Carter Cash

The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in love with my mother.

John Carter Cash

I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.

John Carter Cash