Songwriting Craft Quotes by Tom T. Hall

A song is a poem set to music.

— Tom T. Hall

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

— Tom T. Hall

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said:…

— Tom T. Hall

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy…

— Tom T. Hall

“Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/ But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine”

— Tom T. Hall

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class,…

— Tom T. Hall

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

— Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

— Tom T. Hall

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that…

— Tom T. Hall

When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without…

— Tom T. Hall

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

— Tom T. Hall

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

— Tom T. Hall

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…

— Tom T. Hall

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you…

— Tom T. Hall

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

— Tom T. Hall