Tennessee Ernie Ford Quotes

Know yourself
and know your audience.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

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.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.