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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.
Tom T. Hall
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Tom T. Hall
Age: 85 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 25
Died: 2021
Died: August 20
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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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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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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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Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
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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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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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Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
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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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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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If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
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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.
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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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She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.
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I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
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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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Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.
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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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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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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
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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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