Tennessee Ernie Ford Sayings

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

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#2. 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.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

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

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#4. 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

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

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#6. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#7. Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#8. I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#9. You can't cheat the public for long.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#10. Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. Know yourself
and know your audience.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

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

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#13. 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

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

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#15. There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised

Umar

#16. John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Tennessee Ernie Ford