American - Musician | May 25, 1936 -
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
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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.
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It used to be that you'd 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.
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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
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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.
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Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
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After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
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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.
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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.
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The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
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I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
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