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Tom T. Hall Biography

Thomas T. Hall (born May 25, 1936 in Olive Hill, Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He has written 12 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.

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I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

Coffee, Glasses, Alcohol, Fuzzy, Grass

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.

Brain, Differently, Kids, Way

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.

Entertaining, Mean, Philosophical, Run, Running, Songwriter

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

Alcohol, Faster, Horse, Older, Whiskey, Women

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

American, College, Dirty, Write, Writing

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.

Attitude, Fences, Interviews, Journey, Meaning, Mend

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Back, Failure, Important, Looks, Same, Trying

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

Average, Enough, Make, Simple

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Guy, Sitting, Tree, Under

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

Maybe, Monkey, Monkeys, Politics, President, Universe

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

Breeze, Daisy, Simple, Song, Writing

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.

Bad, Looks, Quitting, Songwriter, Struggle, Young

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?

Class, Home, Sinclair, Time, Writing, Yes

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

Bless, Children, God, Hate, Reality, Young

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.

Day, Disc, Jockey, Nashville, One Day, Song

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

Baptists, Catholic, Quarters, Religion, Sort

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

People, Private, Think, Thinking, Want

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Book, Reading, Traveled, Writing

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

Jesus, Religion, Religious, Tell, Thing

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.

Heart, Infidelity, World, Whole, Jethro

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