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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.
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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Olive Hill
Kentucky
Thomas Hall
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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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The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
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Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.
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I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
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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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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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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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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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She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.
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I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
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Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
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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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Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
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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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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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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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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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I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: Yeah, show up.
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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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