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.
Tom T. HallWhiskey'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.
Tom T. HallMe and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.
Tom T. HallWhen 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.
Tom T. HallI 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.
Tom T. HallIt is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.
Tom T. HallAfter I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
Tom T. HallWhen 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
Tom T. HallI had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
Tom T. HallI 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.
Tom T. HallI have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Tom T. HallYoung 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.
Tom T. HallI have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
Tom T. HallMy 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.
Tom T. HallI was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
Tom T. HallA monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.
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