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> [I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/i-tell-you-i-was-as-nervous-as-a-long-tailed-cat-in-a-roomful-of/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/tennessee-ernie-ford-36637_cat_i-tell-you-i-was-as-nervous-as-a-long-ta_1436257.jpg)

## More by Tennessee Ernie Ford

> [Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/shot-gun-boogie-i-wanted-wedding-bells-i-ll-be-back-little-gal-when/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/sixteen-tons-was-written-eight-years-before-i-recorded-it/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/do-you-want-to-be-successful-nurture-your-talent/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/we-decided-to-do-some-of-merle-s-things-with-modern-instrumentation/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [Know yourself -- and know your audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/know-yourself-and-know-your-audience/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/if-you-see-me-coming-better-step-aside-a-lotta-men-didn-t-a-lotta-men/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/you-load-sixteen-tons-what-do-you-get-another-day-older-and-deeper-in/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [You can't cheat the public for long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/you-can-t-cheat-the-public-for-long/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/i-tell-you-i-was-as-nervous-as-a-long-tailed-cat-in-a-roomful-of/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/i-snapped-my-fingers-all-through-it-sometimes-i-set-my-own-tempo/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/you-can-keep-rummaging-around-until-you-find-a-song-you-like-but-you/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

> [When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-ernie-ford/when-you-do-a-show-five-days-a-week-and-one-night-a-week-the-way-i/)

[Tennessee Ernie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-ernie-ford/)

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