Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes

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.

Ernest Jennings Ford

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• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Ignorant

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Want
  • Spring
  • Now

• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Internet

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Love
  • Want
  • Ever

• If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Education
  • Serious

• Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Heart
  • Winning
  • Place

• I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Question
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Book
  • History
  • Friend

• I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

  

  Karen O
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Kid

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Leaving

• I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Running
  • Feelings

• The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.

  

  King Tuff
  • Music
  • King

• Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

  

  Sxip Shirey
  • Music
  • Men
  • Tool

• 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.

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Music
  • Find
  • Hustling