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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.

Daryl Hall

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

Cautious Diligence Environment
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

Always Converse Ebb Fascinate Flow Outside People Understanding World
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

Away Bed Fever Going Return Upstage
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

Century Creativity Mean Medium Teenager Waiting
If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.
DARYL HALL

Good Hard Work Something
Any song I don’t feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it’s because I want to.
DARYL HALL

Feel Good Song Want
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

Depth Ephemeral Two
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
DARYL HALL

Philadelphia Thinking Years
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

Artific Definitely Dislike Pomposity People Perceive Song Writing
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

Country Wanted Language Musically People Soul
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

Amazing Flash Hands Moth Thinking Writing
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
DARYL HALL

Circles Cousin Trave Wife
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 Heroes Influence Singers Smoky
Americans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.
DARYL HALL

Country Popular Something Thinking
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.
DARYL HALL

Causes Heart Problem
Nobody’s going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
DARYL HALL

Hard Millions Nobody Records

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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