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Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.
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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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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Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
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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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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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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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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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Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
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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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Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.
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I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
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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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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'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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She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.
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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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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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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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I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
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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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If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
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