Tom T. Hall Quotes

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Beer, Matter, Too Much

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Country, Two, Nashville

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• I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

  Tom T. Hall

  Trying, Loser, Cry

  Song: I Love

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• Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

  Tom T. Hall

  Simple, Average, Enough

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• Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

  Tom T. Hall

  Dog, Mistake, Care

  Song: Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine

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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

  Tom T. Hall

  Attitude, Journey, Quitting

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• God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

  Tom T. Hall

  Children, Hate, Reality

  Song: Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine

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

  Tom T. Hall

  Names, Strange, Wonderful

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Running, Philosophical, Mean

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• It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

  Tom T. Hall

  Horse, Alcohol, Whiskey

  Song: Faster Horses

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• A song is a poem set to music.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song

  Tom T. Hall (1987). “The songwriter's handbook”, Rutledge Hill Pr

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Albums, Way

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Country, Song, Artist

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• Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

  Tom T. Hall

  Philosophy, Montana, Existential

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• I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

  Tom T. Hall

  Coffee, Glasses, Alcohol

  Song: I Love, Album: Country Songs for Children, 1995

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Important, Trying, Looks

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Kids, Brain, Way

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• Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

  Tom T. Hall

  Crafts, Talent, Songwriting

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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

  Song, Finding Yourself, Looks

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• If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

  Tom T. Hall

  Careers, Figures, Barbara

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Religious, Jesus, Religion

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• A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

  Tom T. Hall

  President, Firsts, Politics

  Song: The Monkey That Became President, Album: Storyteller Poet Philosopher

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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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  Song, Nashville, One Day

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Writing, Simple

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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.

  Tom T. Hall

  Thinking, Years, People

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