"For many listeners and admirers, Hall's burnished tone and understated approach connote the sonic equivelant of water…"

"Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Tho' there's one motor gone, We can still carry on,…"

"I was inspired to write a folk song — about how soldiers have no choice in the matter but to follow orders — but with…"

"And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn Next stop is Vietnam. And it's f…"

"Now come on mothers throughout the land Pack your boys off to Vietnam Come on fathers don't hesitate Send your sons o…"

"Being curious is an absolute rule of life. If you don’t have that, I don’t know what you're doing in this music."

"Even while I was studying at [Manhattan School of Music], I was learning about melody and rhythm, and theory, and har…"

"You must remember that it was a different time...It was before everyone was looking into their smartphones. There wer…"

"Very often the things that we consider to be new are not new. They're just new combinations or reanimations and reima…"

"My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflect…"