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
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
I am a fan of history.
Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.
A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.
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.
A song is a poem set to music.
Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.
Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
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: "Yeah, show up.
Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?