Tom T. Hall

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 time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

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

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.