Tennessee Ernie Ford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can't cheat the public for long.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Long #Cheat
Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Successful #Want #Talent
Know yourself -- and know your audience.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Know Yourself #Audience
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Work #Sixteen #Another Day
Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Running #Gun #Dancing
If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Men #Steps #Egotism
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Song
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Night #Finding Yourself #Hustle
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Eight #Years #Sixteen
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Rehearsal #Sometimes #Fingers
I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford

#Cat #Long #Nervous

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