Quotes by Tom T. Hall - Page 1

I am a fan of history.
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A song is a poem set to music.
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Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.
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Knows
Nobody Knows
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Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
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Crafts
Songwriting
Talent
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I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
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Reader
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I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
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Bigs
Enough
Stars
Enough Never Big
Big Enough
Hid
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I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
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Cry
Loser
Trying
Try
Losers
Winners
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Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.
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Care
Dog
Mistake
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Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
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Faulkner
Oriental
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Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
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Existential
Montana
Philosophy
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God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.
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Children
Hate
Reality
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It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.
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Alcohol
Horse
Whiskey
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She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.
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Heart
Infidelity
World
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Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.
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Average
Enough
Simple
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I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
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Alcohol
Coffee
Glasses
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If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
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Barbara
Careers
Figures
Career
Dead
Figure
Her
Interviewing
Mine
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People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.
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People
Thinking
Want
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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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Jesus
Religion
Religious
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My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.
Tom T. Hall / Singer
Ifs
People
Theory
Good Religion People
Some People
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I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
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People
Thinking
Years
Work Me People
Fired
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
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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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Baptists
Catholic
Quarters
Jewish
Baptist
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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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Guy
Sitting
Tree
Concept
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I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.
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Men
Happy Go Lucky
Lucky
Old Man
Worried
Great Man Never
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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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Politics
Firsts
President
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The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
Tom T. Hall / Singer
Finding Yourself
Looks
Signals
Song
Life Yourself Look
Clues
Life Look Yourself
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It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.
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Important
Looks
Trying
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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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College
Dirty
Notion
Writing
Bill
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The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
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Artistic
Firsts
Ideas
Time Your First Time
Endeavors
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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
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Book
Literacy
Reading
Traveled
Writing
Short Stories
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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
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Religion
Committed
Names
Notion
Righteousness
Strange
Wonderful
Crimes
Wonderful Thing
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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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Instruments
Musical
Perfect
Retired
Gathered
Suddenly
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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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Book
Hobbies
Library
Author
Local
Pick
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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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Looks
Quitting
Struggle
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The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you’ll hear footsteps.
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Nashville
Records
Something New
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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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Kids
Brain
Brain Surgery
Surgery
Way
Same Thing
Young Kids
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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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Artist
Country
Song
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When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please
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Journey
Attitude
Quitting
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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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Kids
Generations
This Generation
Entertain
Fair
Generation
Lawn
Mow
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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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Success
Advice
Entering
People
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When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
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Journey
Attitude
Please
Attitude Life Work
Develop
Retire
Quit
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Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.
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Beer
Champagne
Matter
Refrain
Too Much
Tough
Vodka
Whiskey
Hope Me Will
Much
Too
Costs
Explain
Fact
Gear
Help
Mouth
Puts
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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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Country
Nashville
Two
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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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Fixed
Judgment
Moral
Stories
Judgments
Listener
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The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.
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Compliment
Hey
Nashville
One Day
Song
Disc
Hall
Jockey
Sounds
Tom
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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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Albums
Finest
Finest Hour
Song
Way
Album
Shot
Crammed
Hour
Search
They Say
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Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?
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Home
Class
Writing
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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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Simple
Song
Writing
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If they want to come out and watch me paint or dig potatoes or mend fences, I don't care. I don't do interviews not because I have anything to hide, but when you retire, the word has a meaning to me. It's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work. You develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
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Journey
Attitude
Watches
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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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Running
Mean
Philosophical
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