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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

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

Agriculture Black Integrated Philadelphia Town
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.
DARYL HALL

Circuit Inspire Local Memories Mother Teacher
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
If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.
DARYL HALL

Good Hard Work Something
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
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
DARYL HALL

Circles Cousin Trave Wife
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
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
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
As I got older, my voice got better.
DARYL HALL

Better Older Voice
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

Bob Care Everybody Green Matter
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
DARYL HALL

Philadelphia Thinking Years
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
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it’s pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
DARYL HALL

Artist Cliche End 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.
DARYL HALL

Around Belief Six Year Years

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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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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