Tennessee Ernie Ford
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
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.
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.
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.Collection: Work
Know yourself -- and know your audience.Collection: Know Yourself
I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!Collection: Cat
If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.Collection: Men
Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.Collection: Successful
Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.Collection: Running
You can't cheat the public for long.Collection: Long