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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 #Cost #Gears
“I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Trying #Loser #Winner
“It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Horse #Alcohol #Whiskey
“Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Simple #Average #Enough
“Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Crafts #Talent #Songwriting
“Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Nobody Knows
“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 #Hands #Two
“A song is a poem set to music.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Song
“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

#Trying #Important #Looks
“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
“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.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Attitude #Journey #Care
“I was quite a reader before I became a writer.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Reader
“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.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Kids #This Generation #Generations
“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 #Littles
“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

#Ideas #Firsts #Artistic
“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.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Song #Nashville #One Day
“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?”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Writing #Home #Class
“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
“If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Careers #Figures #Barbara
“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
“The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Tree #Guy #Firsts
“I am a fan of history.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Fans
“I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Stars #Enough #Bigs
“I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Men #Lucky #Worried
“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

#Book #Reading #Writing
“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 #Way #Albums
“Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Philosophy #Montana #Existential
“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.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Success #People #Advice
“Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.”
-- Tom T. Hall

#Dog #Mistake #Care
“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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