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Tom T. Hall Quotes
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Musician Quotes
Category:
American Musician Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 25, 1936
Nationality:
American
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Tom T. Hall

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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.
Tom T. Hall

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
Tom T. Hall

I am a fan of history.
Tom T. Hall

I 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. Hall

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
Tom T. Hall

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Tom T. Hall

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
Tom T. Hall

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.
Tom T. Hall

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
Tom T. Hall

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. Hall

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
Tom T. Hall

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
Tom T. Hall

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.
Tom T. Hall

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
Tom T. Hall

It used to be that you'd 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.
Tom T. Hall

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.
Tom T. Hall

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

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.
Tom T. Hall

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
Tom T. Hall

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.
Tom T. Hall

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