Daryl Hall famous 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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Assistants #Rooms #Superstar

Success and failure are equally surprising.
-- Daryl Hall

#Success And Failure #Surprising

You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.
-- Daryl Hall

#Environment #Diligence #Cautious

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

#Years #England

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

#Two #Depth #Ephemeral

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

#Records

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

#Song #Care #I Care

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

#Thinking #Philadelphia #Years

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

#Hardest #Workers

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Ebb And Flow #People #Understanding

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
-- Daryl Hall

#Years #Six #Belief

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!
-- Daryl Hall

#Going Away #Bed #Fever

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

#Heart #Causes #Problem

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
-- Daryl Hall

#Thinking

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
-- Daryl Hall

#Duos #Accused

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

#Song #Feel Good #Want

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Writing #Thinking #Ideas

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Song #Writing #People

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

#Way

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.
-- Daryl Hall

#Teenager #Mean #Waiting

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

#Thinking #Age #Golden

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Philadelphia #People #Soul

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Philadelphia #Black #Towns

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

#Mother #Teacher #Memories

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Boys #Careers #Ideas

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Differences #People #Who Cares

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

#Black

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

#Gone #Stepchildren #Stepchild

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Fun #Mtv #Pioneers

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

#Cousin #Circles #Wife

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Song #Trying #Singers

As I got older, my voice got better.
-- Daryl Hall

#Voice

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
-- Daryl Hall

#Hero #Singers #Influence

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.
-- Daryl Hall

#Matter #Als #Green

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
-- Daryl Hall

#Artist #Trying #Cliche

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
-- Daryl Hall

#Hard Work

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

#House #Antiques #Architecture

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
-- Daryl Hall

#College #Thinking