Tom T. Hall
Tom T. Hall
Thomas "Tom T." Hallis an American country music songwriter, singer, novelist, and short-story writer. He has written 11 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover smash "Harper Valley PTA" and the hit "I Love", which reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. He became known to fans as "The Storyteller," thanks to his storytelling skills in his songwriting...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth25 May 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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 had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.
I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
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.
The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you’ll hear footsteps.
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.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
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.
The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
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.
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.
It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.