Any song I don’t feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it’s because I want to.
DARYL HALLI 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.
More Daryl Hall Quotes
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Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
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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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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.
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Nobody’s going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
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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.
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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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As I got older, my voice got better.
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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.
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Success and failure are equally surprising.
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I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.
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I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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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.
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I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.
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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it’s pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
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