After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

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

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

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 love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

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

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

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

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

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

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

For those special moments you never want to forget. When it comes to you, all I need is a pencilEthan

Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people

Nobody is born rich everyone started from poor, that your grandfather or mother or father or grandmother are rich. This is just a luck, other people are born in poor families and become rich!

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."

The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.