72 Quotes by Tom T. Hall

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I’d pick out an author and I would read all their books.

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

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.

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

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.

I don’t know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you’re a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.

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.

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

I’m a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I’d just get worried.