Tom T. Hall Quotes

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.
Tom T. Hall

Hope, Help, Tough

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

Love, Try, Winners

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.
Tom T. Hall

Life, Work, Attitude

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

Great, Old, Wanted

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

Best, Said, Song

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.
Tom T. Hall

Religion, Sure, Guy

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

Perfect, After, Wanted

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

Almost, Faulkner, Oriental

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

Great, Wanted, American

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

Work, Anybody, Fired

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

Religion, Jewish, Catholic

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

End, Find, Moral

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

Enough, Big, Star

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

Around, Read, Books

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

Before, Quite, Writer

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

Book, Writing, Through

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

Career, Her, Dead

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

Car, Country, Song

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

Best, Nothing, Through

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

Religion, Good, Theory

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

Religion, Strange, Wonderful

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.
Tom T. Hall

Time, Working, Else

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
Tom T. Hall

Life, Yourself, Find

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Nationality: American

Born: May 25, 1936

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