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

Hard Millions Nobody Records
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.
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Difference Differences Generations People Record Saying
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
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
DARYL HALL

Age Golden Thinking
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
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
DARYL HALL

Gone Marriage Relationship Stepchild Stepchildren
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
As I got older, my voice got better.
DARYL HALL

Better Older Voice
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
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
Success and failure are equally surprising.
DARYL HALL

Failure Success Surprising
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

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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