Tennessee Ernie Ford Quotes

Know yourself
and know your audience.

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.

You can't cheat the public for long.

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

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

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

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

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.