Daryl Hall Quotes

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Daryl Hall

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 11, 1946

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

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If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

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I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

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I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

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Success and failure are equally surprising.

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I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.

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Having a solo career is a funny thing.

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The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

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I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

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Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

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The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

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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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My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.

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When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.

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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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