A remarkable man. I once saw him and June grocery shopping together at Kroger’s in Hendersonville. I froze, he noticed me and just smiled. That smile will live with me forever.
I met Rufus Thomas once in a Krogers when I about 16 and I knew who he was because my grandparents liked his music and I do and he saw me looking and said everything gonna be alright.I will forget that.Just for those who don't know who Rufus Thomas was he he was a singer song writer from Memphis who recorded at Stax,he had songs like the Funky Chicken and Just Walkin The Dog.
When we lived in Hendersonville, we never once saw Johnny Cash or June Carter! We drove by their house about 3 times, and Roy Orbison's, next door, when we were going to or coming back from picnicking at Cages Bend. I saw Roy Orbison and his family out shopping, probably 3 times; we used to see Dolly Parton all the time at Star Fabric Center and Maxwell Drugs (probably buying her hot pink lipstick for the Porter Waggoner Show, we figured). I remember waking up the morning after Roy Orbison's beautiful, cedar house burned, and his sons were killed. My best Hendersonville High School friend, Debbie, was killed in a terrible auto crash, with Helen Carter's son, another boy, and her closest friend from toddlerhood, Cyndi, who was by all reports, a wonderful young woman. Cyndi's grandparents went to my grandparents' church. My cousin attended school at Two Rivers with her. Also, I have reason to believe that Johnny Cash was kind to a friend who was in terrible trouble, and genuinely liked him. The thing is, more important than people's stardom, is the fact that they are human: fellow human beings, created in the image of God. I think that this reality, and a basic, godly humility, are secrets to Johnny Cash's lasting appeal. He impresses us as real, aware of, and respecting the most important things of life.
I can't believe he literally died 20 days after this interview... Yeah, he was heartbroken because of June. Lived a tough life in general... I hope he is reunited now with June.
@@budfoucher2704 who asked you? It's funny how people like you complain about others talking about religion but won't hesitate to talk about what you don't believe in, if you don't believe why should you care if others do?
An excerpt from Aristotle’s Parts of Animals: Now that with which the ancient writers, who first philosophized about Nature, busied themselves, was the material principle and the material cause. They inquired what this is, and what its character; how the universe is generated out of it, and by what motor influence, whether, for instance, by antagonism or friendship, whether by intelligence or spontaneous action, the substratum of matter being assumed to have certain inseparable properties; fire, for instance, to have a hot nature, earth a cold one; the former to be light, the latter heavy. For even the genesis of the universe is thus explained by them. After a like fashion do they deal also with the development of plants and of animals. They say, for instance, that the water contained in the body causes by its currents the formation of the stomach and the other receptacles of food or of excretion; and that the breath by its passage breaks open the outlets of the nostrils; air and water being the materials of which bodies are made; for all represent nature as composed of such or similar substances. But if men and animals and their several parts are natural phenomena, then the natural philosopher must take into consideration not merely the ultimate substances of which they are made, but also flesh, bone, blood, and all other homogeneous parts; not only these, but also the heterogeneous parts, such as face, hand, foot; and must examine how each of these comes to be what it is, and in virtue of what force. For to say what are the ultimate substances out of which an animal is formed, to state, for instance, that it is made of fire or earth, is no more sufficient than would be a similar account in the case of a couch or the like. For we should not be content with saying that the couch was made of bronze or wood or whatever it might be, but should try to describe its design or mode of composition in preference to the material; or, if we did deal with the material, it would at any rate be with the concretion of material and form. For a couch is such and such a form embodied in this or that matter, or such and such a matter with this or that form; so that its shape and structure must be included in our description. For the formal nature is of greater importance than the material nature. Does, then, configuration and colour constitute the essence of the various animals and of their several parts? For if so, what Democritus says will be strictly correct. For such appears to have been his notion. At any rate he says that it is evident to everyone what form it is that makes the man, seeing that he is recognizable by his shape and colour. 22 And yet a dead body has exactly the same configuration as a living one; but for all that is not a man. So also no hand of bronze or wood or constituted in any but the appropriate way can possibly be a hand in more than name. For like a physician in a painting, or like a flute in a sculpture, in spite of its name it will be unable to do the office which that name implies. Precisely in the same way no part of a dead body, such I mean as its eye or its hand, is really an eye or a hand. To say, then, that shape and colour constitute the animal is an inadequate statement, and is much the same as if a woodcarver were to insist that the hand he had cut out was really a hand. Yet the physiologists, when they give an account of the development and causes of the animal form, speak very much like such a craftsman. What, however, I would ask, are the forces by which the hand or the body was fashioned into its shape? The woodcarver will perhaps say, by the axe or the auger; the physiologist, by air and by earth. Of these two answers the artificer’s is the better, but it is nevertheless insufficient. For it is not enough for him to say that by the stroke of his tool this part was formed into a concavity, that into a flat surface; but he must state the reasons why he struck his blow in such a way as to effect this, and what his final object was; namely, that the piece of wood should develop eventually into this or that shape. It is plain, then, that the teaching of the old physiologists is inadequate, and that the true method is to state what the definitive characters are that distinguish the animal as a whole; to explain what it is both in substance and in form, and to deal after the same fashion with its several organs; in fact, to proceed in exactly the same way as we should do, were we giving a complete description of a couch. If now this something that constitutes the form of the living being be the soul, or part of the soul, or something that without the soul cannot exist; as would seem to be the case, seeing at any rate that when the soul departs, what is left is no longer a living animal, and that none of the parts remain what they were before, excepting in mere configuration, like the animals that in the fable are turned into stone; if, I say, this be so, then it will come within the province of the natural philosopher to inform himself concerning the soul, and to treat of it, either in its entirety, or, at any rate, of that part of it which constitutes the essential character of an animal; and it will be his duty to say what this soul or this part of a soul is; and to discuss the attributes that attach to this essential character, especially as nature is spoken of in two senses, and the nature of a thing is either its matter or its essence; nature as essence including both the motor cause and the final cause. Now it is in the latter of these two senses that either the whole soul or some part of it constitutes the nature of an animal; and inasmuch as it is the presence of the soul that enables matter to constitute the animal nature, much more than it is the presence of matter which so enables the soul, the inquirer into nature is bound on every ground to treat of the soul rather than of the matter. For though the wood of which they are made constitutes the couch and the tripod, it only does so because it is capable of receiving such and such a form. What has been said suggests the question, whether it is the whole soul or only some part of it, the consideration of which comes within the province of natural science. Now if it be of the whole soul that this should treat, then there is no place for any other philosophy beside it. For as it belongs in all cases to one and the same science to deal with correlated subjects-one and the same science, for instance, deals with sensation and with the objects of sense-and as therefore the intelligent soul and the objects of intellect, being correlated, must belong to one and the same science, it follows that natural science will have to include the whole universe in its province. But perhaps it is not the whole soul, nor all its parts collectively, that constitutes the source of motion; but there may be one part, identical with that in plants, which is the source of growth, another, namely the sensory part, which is the source of change of quality, while still another, and this not the intellectual part, is the source of locomotion. I say not the intellectual part; for other animals than man have the power of locomotion, but in none but him is there intellect. Thus then it is plain that it is not of the whole soul that we have to treat. For it is not the whole soul that constitutes the animal nature, but only some part or parts of it. Moreover, it is impossible that any abstraction can form a subject of natural science, seeing that everything that Nature makes is means to an end. For just as human creations are the products of art, so living objects are manifest in the products of an analogous cause or principle, not external but internal, derived like the hot and the cold from the environing universe. And that the heaven, if it had an origin, was evolved and is maintained by such a cause, there is therefore even more reason to believe, than that mortal animals so originated. For order and definiteness are much more plainly manifest in the celestial bodies than in our own frame; while change and chance are characteristic of the perishable things of earth. Yet there are some who, while they allow that every animal exists and was generated by nature, nevertheless hold that the heaven was constructed to be what it is by chance and spontaneity; the heaven, in which not the faintest sign of haphazard or of disorder is discernible! Again, whenever 24 there is plainly some final end, to which a motion tends should nothing stand in the way, we always say that such final end is the aim or purpose of the motion; and from this it is evident that there must be a something or other really existing, corresponding to what we call by the name of Nature. For a given germ does not give rise to any chance living being, nor spring from any chance one; but each germ springs from a definite parent and gives rise to a definite progeny. And thus it is the germ that is the ruling influence and fabricator of the offspring. For these it is by nature, the offspring being at any rate that which in nature will spring from it. At the same time the offspring is anterior to the germ; for germ and perfected progeny are related as the developmental process and the result. Anterior, however, to both germ and product is the organism from which the germ was derived. For every germ implies two organisms, the parent and the progeny. For germ or seed is both the seed of the organism from which it came, of the horse, for instance, from which it was derived, and the seed of the organism that will eventually arise from it, of the mule, for example, which is developed from the seed of the horse. The same seed then is the seed both of the horse and of the mule, though in different ways as here set forth. Moreover, the seed is potentially that which will spring from it, and the relation of potentiality to actuality we know.
@VoidOfThought the reason God made these terms, is so that heaven is a place of peace, love and joy. If heaven accepted anyone just because they occasionally do good stuff then heaven won't be a safe and peaceful haven to relax in. Heaven is a place where no one has to fear, have anxieties or doubt. Only the truly righteous people can go there, which is why none of these listed will exist there :) no one is excluded from getting there :) all of the instructions are right before you, in the Bible.
My mom worked at the hospital where June was and he came up to the desk to ask a question. Mom said he was the nicest man and his stature and presence was remarkable. He actually said, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash...” My momma still gets goose bumps just talking about it.
I met him in Brisbane airport in 94, he was touring and was on the same plane as my parents and I asked him for an autograph for my Mums boarding pass, he said no problem Sir and signed it with love and I thanked him and he said no , thank you Sir. To this day I tell everyone Johnny cash called me Sir. A true claim to fame. A great and humble man.
A family member of mine is a nurse and had an older gentleman come in when COVID hit. They knew he was going to pass soon and asked him what kind of music he liked and he said Johnny Cash. They said they sat with him for 4 hours with their phone on his shoulder listening to his music up until he passed. Incredible how Johnny Cash has changed so many of us. His work will live on forever.
I never turned my back on God I never thought that He wasnt there Hes my counselor Hes my wisdom All the good things in my life come from Him Johnny your closing words of wisdom have made me reflect on the good things in my life I want to turn around now before its to late and grab hold of Gods out stretched hand of Salvation You have left me with a cherished legacy of hope in those closing words Thank you so much
JESUS CHRIST SAVES....my father had 4 surgeries since November...ventilator for a total of 6 weeks....no brain activity for over a week....less than 30% chance to get through his last two surgeries....less than 5% to make it when they removed his ventilator 2 weeks ago...the night before we went to say our goodbyes, I went in the garage and my grandpas old Bible was up on this shelf....something was telling me to open it....I randomly opened it , as soon as my eyes looked at it, there was a verse about The Lords righteous right hand renewing hearts and breathing life back into the weary....Dad comes home June 4th....has been doing physical therapy now for a week and every Dr, nurse, etc, said they’ve never seen such a miracle...I just told the Drs, etc, then you don’t know Jesus Christ...and whether you do or don’t believe, HE believes in you and loves you so very much. God bless you all
Me too outlaw brother Bob he,s been on an amazing journey life itself rest on brother Johnny we all love and miss you so very much well peace everyone😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
SO you love the fact he was a wife beater a bar fighter alcholic and womanizer get real.Loving his music is one thing.Its important though to seperate fame from of a person as an individual. In his personal life he had all of the flaws I just named. When you say you love everything about him it is a flaw within itself.
Secret to a happy marriage?? I can't believe this question was asked of a man who walked out on his wife and children. Man in Black should have been Man in Sack cloth and ashes. May God have mercy on his hyppocrite soul.
@@fjordike Men change, Johnny made mistakes just like the rest of us if you're a true Christian you would forgive him. Man in black isn't an honorary title it's one of shame and guilt...he walked out from his wife not his daughter's. He felt that pain and if he could he would probably take it all back Johnny made mistakes and he tried to redeem himself because of those mistakes.
@@authorrichards7633 , 'men change'. Yes he changed. He make solemn marriage vows before God and his family to his wife, to be her husband/protector/friend/father of their children- until death do they part. You seem to have had access to his head and heart but I doubt that. One's success on the stage cannot atone for his abandoning his children's mother (and by extension - them). There are THOUSANDS out there who may feel that their abandoning their families isn't so bad - look, Johnny did it and 'everybody' loves him! I don't envy him in eternity. Just sayin.
@@authorrichards7633 M'friend, Johnny tried to redeem hisself - a mistake you both may reminisce about together in hell. Only Jesus can redeem any of us. I know this for myself I pray you will learn this before you ever see Johnnee...in...you know where!!! Of course he could have finally got it right and put down his gitarr and hit his knees before the Throne of Grace but since he never shared this I doubt it. Jussayin his life was a horrible example for any man, any true American, to follow. Leaving his kids to Welfare ....what a pity and shame!!
@@fjordike Johnny was a man of faith, throughout his life he never doubted or gave up on his faith. Johnny isn't burning in hell like you claim he's in heaven. He made mistakes and sinned just like the rest of us and he asked jesus for forgiveness and he tried to be a better man.
I can still see and hear him walking across the Madison Hospital floor near Nashville Tennessee in 1970. He was dressed in black with cowboy boots. That’s when and where June had her baby son and I worked then as a ward clerk. I’ll always remember that.
One of my favorite Johnny quotes is “ well we all ought to go to heaven .” Truly a man that was born in bad times and always stayed humble through it all! R.I.P. Mr. Cash ☹️😢
Yes. Looked much older than his 71 years. Could have passed for 90 years old here. Probably because he must've suffered a pretty severe stroke. (Also Johnny had lived a very hard and as he said here, a crazy CraZy life!!)😉
Try touring on the road year after year, eating fast food and living in hotel rooms. It’s not an easy life my friend. I’ve done it many times as it will kill you
I always loved Johnny Cash. He lived a Hard life. Only 72yrs old. Yes, he had multiple serious health issues. Stroke, Parkinsons, and being in hospice, well I believe Cancer and COPD All took him in the End. He was such a handsome, strong empathetic man. For sure, I believe he's in Heaven singing feeling young and well and happily in the presence of our Lord Jesus. Listen to his Last Song 🎵 Hurt. He doesn't Hurt anymore in Heaven,!
The greatest ever. My son was a Goth. One day, all his Goth friends came to our home. When they saw my Johnny Cash cds, there was a rush to play their favourite song. No other singer could transverse, such a wide genre.
@@lf2052 I have always found my son's friends to be polite , respectable and responsible. My son still is a goth, though slightly toned down being a Dad ! One of their friends was in hospital so they met at our house as we were near the hospital. They were all supportive of their friend and, so polite to my husband and I. Never judge people by first impressions or a misplaced bias. All the best to you and your family.
Daniel Brooks Dont worry, for a 71 year old he was extremely beat up and honestly in this video he seems more like he’s 91 than 71. You have to keep in mind he is saying this from the point of view of a man who beat himself up for 50 years with drugs, alcohol, and living the rockstar life. Unless you ALSO lived the same life as Johnny Cash I think you will have TONS of time left haha. Even if you did half of what he did, you’ve got time left. He went HARD.
@@rodniki14 I'd be ok if I went to sleep tonight and never woke up. I'm already tired of the bullshit that is living so, I will think the same thing at 71 but I will be happy because it will FINALLY be close to ending!
Erik Halverson, whenever I hear a guy talk like that I feel I’m in the presence of an honest man, or at least a man who isn’t fooled by all the pretty nonsense that people use to kid themselves that life is anything but tragic in its essence. I felt that way already as a teenager and now I’m 68. But, like Johnny, I found the reason to keep going and make sense of it all. I haven’t changed my opinion about life, in fact I think my outlook on the future of mankind is more bleak than ever but at least I know the Truth. And I take comfort in that.
Secret to a happy marriage?? I can't believe this question was asked of a man who walked out on his wife and children. Man in Black should have been Man in Sack cloth and ashes. May God have mercy on his hyppocrite soul.
@@lindacarter4543 Linda, one of the largest causes of social ills in America is created by fathers who have abandoned their children and family. 'it is what it is'? Doesn't have to be that way. America deserves better. Just sayin, and have a nice day!
@@gordie225, billions? I don't believe in assigning all bad to the enemy of our souls. There are a lot of Christians who find relief in confessing THEIR sins to God.
Miguel Deer even if you don’t believe in God, labelling Christianity a Bronze Age myth is hilarious. And wrong. Hilarious in fact because you are so wrong 😂
I am from India but grew up on country music , thanks to my late dad. I listened to everything from Hank to Charlie Pride but Johnny Cash stole my heart with his raw renditions and the simplicity of his music inspite of great lyrics. He's long gone UP I'm sure and is surely belting out his hits for Our Maker and the angels and saints...and I still miss someone...❤❤❤❤
Johnny Cash made mistakes and learned many lessons during his life. A very wise, intelligent, and talented man that found his calling and we all benefitted.
I am not a country music fan. Not saying they are not talented but just not for me. However; Johnny Cash was someone that I could always listen to and still do today. Talented man.
Ze Bunker Your mother is Stupid! You dummy liberal socialist Communist Criminal loser Hoosier you! And your gonna be going to jail for this! You got that loser Hoosier you? And that is something I know loser Hoosier!
He did a lot of drugs in his early years. And he was just an older looking guy in general when he was young. Seeing Johnny at 22 is pretty crazy, because he looks 36 lol.
You’re right, but just remember that this was 20 days before his death. When people are dying, their bodies collapse rapidly. I don’t know this for sure, but it’s possible that he didn’t look quite so rough at age 70, if that makes sense.
My dAd was in his 80's when he discovered Johnny Cash. When we would go to visit him at his home, Johnny's music was always playing nonstop. So when he passed away last August, we had a cassette player playing all Johnny Cash sons in the funeral home parlor. We knew he was looking down and thanking us for giving him the perfect funeral by including Johnny!!
"...And when I reach the other side I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can Perhaps I may become a highwayman again Or I may simply be a single drop of rain But I will remain And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..."
Chad Porter quoth the words of men remembering stories from their past or others past and writing them in a book then being yet again rewritten to even more so be translated into a more layman form recently. Yeah that’s something you should believe as fact and truth...just don’t be a dick. You’ll get there. If it’s there and you don’t come back as a bug smashed on your grandchild’s windshield one night. Lol
You know when your soul mate goes that your life isn't long to be over too. When they go, half of you goes with them & the other half of your soul is just winding down to stopping. John & June Cash are proof of this. RIP.
Lotta miles on John. I am sitting here smoking a Cigar and drinking a beer and just realized he is but 7 years older than I am... No matter your age. We need to get out more and enjoy what time we have left because it is less than we perceive That clock just keeps ticking faster and faster
@@TMB247 Well whatever....but you are the last person who should be spreading his "wisdom". Especially when it's of a generic "enjoying your life/time" statement which you yourself can't even follow...lmao
TMB247 that’s some tons of bricks outta ya now, man. Glad to come across that one, as some of us would rather hide them bricks- or it ain’t us. I gotcha, sir, well and clear. 👍🏻
A family member of mine saw him sitting alone at the airport one day. He sat next to him and started talking. He said he was the most humble human being he ever met. They sat and talked for a few hours like old friends.
He wasn't the best guitar player. He wasn't the best singer. He was just a really good person with a pure heart. And he was an original who had "IT." I still listen to his music and miss him.
I love this man, his music and his legacy. The world was better with him in it than without. Godspeed Mr. Cash. So true is the cliche you’ll never know just how much you’ll miss someone until their gone.
Still so sharp. He had the same breathing patterns as my mother before she passed from ocpd complications. You can tell timing his breaths during conversation was a challenge. It was a lot like listening to my mom and her final days.
Actually his official biography it says that he invented that story, he didn’t understand Russian and he just had to write the codes he heard, it also says he liked to invent stories to make stuff more interesting, also other things too
I'm also 52 yrs old and I remember the Intire family would sit in front of the TV on Sunday night after church. Dad would put some coal in the fireplace and mom would make popcorn and we would wach heehaw. Johny cash was his 2nd favorite and hank Williams was his favorite singer. 🙏 👪 🇺🇸 🔫 ✌👍☺
Greatest ever. I managed to pass his musical heritage and his great personality over to my son. Next year we shall visit America and see his grave. RIP Johnny Cash.
I just buried my grandmother last week in Mexico, Johnny cash song "on the evening train" is really helping through these tough sad times I'm having. R.I.P Johnny!!!
I just heard "when the man comes around" for the 1st time last night and I can't explain the feelings it stirred in me. Thank you Mr. Cash...you are loved and i'm sure God has you in his arms.....
Johnny was a class act and absolute gift to the world. Not just as a singer but as a great person. Full of wisdom and inspiration. His voice even in the last times of his life was and always will be always music to my ears. I have always loved this great man.
Trent Resnor wrote and initially recorded "Hurt", but said that Johnny's rendition was what the song was really meant to be. Listen to the original track from "The Downward Spiral", then listen to Cash sing it. The emotional content he puts into that song is staggering...so much that it actually hurts.
Humble, a lot of the musicians nowadays should take notes, most could only dream of having a career like his, yet they talk about themselves like they're god's gift to music.
I saw him once in concert back in the 90s in California. It was a small venue but his show and music were top notch. I feel lucky to have seen him perform.
71 years old and he looks 91 and thats because he lived and loved full speed ahead. No regrets. A full, glorious and amazing life. As Neil Young once said, "its better to burn out than to fade away." Thank You Johnny for everything.
Punk is a very left leaning community but he’s got a special place in our hearts he may have had different views on some stuff but he was an honest and real man that’s what matters
Listening to him talk about June as if she were in the other room. This was a man of absolute belief and her death was of no consequence because he knew he'd see her again quite soon. Talk about strong faith
@katy bourassa John cheated on Yoko. Paul cheated on Linda, FDR cheated on Elanor. Even Reagan cheated on Nancy. Cheating is a terrible thing to do to a partner but many a person has cheated on someone they deeply love. Especially in a marriage where one partner is in the spotlight constantly. Doesn't make it OK but it doesn't make me doubt how much Johnny loved June
Your father's in two places your heart and in heaven bless you brother Steve and sorry for your lost 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
Steve Thwaites Yep, their music always makes me think of my dad too. He took me to his concert many yrs ago. He would of liked this last song of his “Hurt”. This one really gets under your skin. But they’re all up above us together now..
Your comment is very beautiful and heartfelt, especially being from a nonbeliever; it means so much more for you to say that. But I must point out one small thing that might change your life--science and math have proven God already. Look up Dr. Jeffrey Long here on RU-vid or elsewhere and Chris Langan's CTMU (Cognitive Theoretical Model of the Universe). Furthermore, you can look into NDEs and hospice nurses experiences for anecdotes as well.
Only word I can think of when I see this man perform or speak. Icon!! I'm well into my 60s now but grew up with Cash's music as my dad was a huge fan. Thanks pop for turning me onto pure magic and truth. I'm a better man because of you and the music you turned me onto. Miss you pop and miss you Johnny
People don’t think about that Clear Lake was going to be a defining moment for music no matter what. Either rock would change forever or country would. Buddy or Waylon.
