Tennessee Ernie Ford Quotes

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

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Work, Debt, Sixteen

  Song: Sixteen Tons

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• Know yourself -- and know your audience.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Know Yourself, Audience, Knows

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

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Men, Steps, Egotism

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• Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Successful, Want, Talent

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• You can't cheat the public for long.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Long, Cheat

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• Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Eight, Years, Sixteen

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

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Rehearsal, Sometimes, Fingers

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