Daryl Hall quotes

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit. (Daryl Hall)

As I got older, my voice got better.

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If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

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Success and failure are equally surprising.

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I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

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To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

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Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

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Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

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The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

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Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard. (Daryl Hall)

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

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Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

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I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

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I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

Daryl Hall

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

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I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

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Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

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If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says? (Daryl Hall)

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

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I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

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I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

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I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

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Daryl Hall

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Photo: Matthew Becker, Weatherman90 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0

Occupation: American Musician
Born: October 11, 1946
Quotes count: 39

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