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Daryl Hall

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
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
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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Circuit Inspire Local Memories Mother Teacher
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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Away Bed Fever Going Return Upstage
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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Hero Heroes Influence Singers Smoky
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.
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Agriculture Black Integrated Philadelphia Town
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.
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Amazing Flash Hands Moth Thinking Writing
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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Philadelphia Thinking Years
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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Age Golden Thinking
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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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
Success and failure are equally surprising.
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Failure Success Surprising
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.
DARYL HALL

Causes Heart Problem
I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.
DARYL HALL

Comfortable Tell 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.
DARYL HALL

Around Arrangement Scatty Singers Song Trying
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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Around Belief Six Year Years

If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.

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