Tom T. Hall Quotes
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I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
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Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
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She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.
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I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.
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My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.
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It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.
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I am a fan of history.
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When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.
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God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.
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I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
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It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
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A song is a poem set to music.
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A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.
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Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.
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I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
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People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.
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The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.
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I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
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I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
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I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
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I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
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I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.
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This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
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I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.
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I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.
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If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
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Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.
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After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
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Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
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Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.
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