John Carter Cash Quotes

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John Carter Cash

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 3, 1970

My dad was a unique person.

John Carter Cash

Nobody sounds like my dad.

John Carter Cash

My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

John Carter Cash

There's something magical that happens to every three-year-old that hears 'Ring of Fire.' That's usually where it starts for most people. They immediately want to put on a black shirt, grab a guitar and sing 'Ring of Fire.'

John Carter Cash

Voice of the Spirit' was a project I'd been talking about for a long time. It began as an Appalachian record. But it's a record of all pure Southern gospel.

John Carter Cash

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

John Carter Cash

My father was a humanitarian, but he didn't side one way or another with any certain right's groups. He just believed in people.

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I try to weigh out the dark and the light. They were both very real aspects of my Dad. To me, the good and the healing and the light outweigh the dark so much, and that's why I focus on the good.

John Carter Cash

I always heard my dad talk about playing music right through till the end. He may have talked in the early 90s about how he was ready to get off the road. But retirement, for my dad wasn't part of his make-up.

John Carter Cash

My mother made wonderful cheesecake. She loved cheesecake. She ate it every day of her life.

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Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

John Carter Cash

My father was a great outdoorsman. From when I was about six we would spend countless hours together in the woods or on a lake. He taught me how to skin a rabbit and pluck a wild turkey. He showed me there is much more to nature than we can ever understand.

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There are a whole lot of Carter Family songs.

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When I began looking into the Carter catalog and came across 'Will My Mother Know Me There,' it seemed like such a joyful number and such a song of the spirit that I could hear them all singing it together.

John Carter Cash

My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing for a week in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. The land was always in their souls.

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My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

John Carter Cash

My father was a wildfire. Really. Nobody could save him from anything. His family turned away from him, and he broke up with his first wife. It just happened to be that when he was going to get back up on his feet, my mother was there.

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I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.

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I listen to all types of music.

John Carter Cash

My mother did a fried vegetable dish called 'stuff.' It's fried potatoes and carrots. Then you add bell peppers, mushrooms and other softer vegetables. At the end you add onion. Then, you steam the dish with hot pepper cheese on the top and it melts down through the dish. It's delicious. It's wonderful.

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