Tom T. Hall Quotes

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

I don't hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

I will never retire unless I have to.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

I don't know the right way to retire.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

I want to retire how I want to retire - and I have a great opportunity to do that.

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

The decision to retire was very easy. The timing had come to the point where it was very clear that my time was up.

I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.

I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house.

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.