The songwriter's handbook
A source page for quotes linked to Tom T. Hall.
“I sleep good and I miss a lot of trains; That one way track to no man's love I'll never ride again”
“If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!”
“A song is a poem set to music.”
“Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.”
“It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.”
“People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.”
“My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.”
“I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.”
“I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.”
“God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.”
“I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.”
“She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.”
“Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.”