72 Quotes by Tom T. Hall

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.

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.

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.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

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

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.