Daryl Hall Quotes

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Daryl Hall

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 11, 1946

The 'Daryl's 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.

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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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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'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

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In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

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This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.

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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 late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

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When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

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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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I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

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

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Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

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

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

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I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'

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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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