Daryl Hall Quotes
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.
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!
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.
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.
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?
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.
As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.
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.
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.
