The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
From Tom T. Hall
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
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 can do what you please.
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
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 never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
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.
The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.
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