Best 9 quotes of Tennessee Ernie Ford on MyQuotes

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.

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.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

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.

You can't cheat the public for long.

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