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Johnny Cash
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Cash: I went into a coma and I was there for 12 days. They all thought I was dying and they couldn't diagnose what was wrong with me.
— Larry King Live (26 November 2002)
Johnny Cash
American country singer (1932–2003)
- Audience30.6K
- Fame82.7
- Momentum3.9
Source-basedStable
30.6K youtube followers
- Audience30.6K
- Fame82.7
- Momentum3.9
- Global rank#249
- United States rank#197
- Musicians rank#157
Lived 1932–2003, aged 71United States
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Updated 2026-06-20
The bass-baritone in black who opened every show with "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" — and sang sorrow, sin, and second chances to both rockabilly crowds and prison yards, crossing genre lines no one else could.
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Born to cotton farmers in Kingsland, Arkansas, Cash grew up on gospel music and spent four years in the Air Force, much of it in West Germany. He rose to fame in the mid-1950s Memphis rockabilly scene, his deep voice and the Tennessee Three's train-like guitar rhythms cutting a path through I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, and Ring of Fire. He wore all black, played free prison concerts, and married June Carter after their duet Jackson. The rebelliousness softened into something more somber over time. In his final years he covered Hurt, Rusty Cage, and Personal Jesus — rock songs that fit…
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Johnny Cash
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.
— Larry King Live (26 November 2002)
Johnny Cash
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People say, Well, he wore that body out. Well, maybe I did. But it was to a good purpose.
— Larry King Live (26 November 2002)
Johnny Cash
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The line "because you're mine, I walk the line." It kept coming to me, you know? But I was — I was … young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming to me.
— Larry King Live (26 November 2002)
Johnny Cash
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I think it speaks to our basic fundamental feelings, you know. Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing.
— Larry King Live (26 November 2002)
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Historical35.2
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Source confidence95.0
Completeness90.0
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