Tennessee Ernie Ford quotes
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“You can't cheat the public for long.”
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“Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.”
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“Know yourself -- and know your audience.”
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“You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.”
-- Tennessee Ernie FordSource : Song: Sixteen Tons
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“Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.”
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“If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.”
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“I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.”
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“I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!”
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford
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