Tom T. Hall Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.”

“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.”

“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.”

“After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.”

“I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.”

“The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.”

“I was quite a reader before I became a writer.”

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

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