72 Quotes by Tom T. Hall

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.

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

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.

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.

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.