Americans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.
DARYL HALLWhen 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.
More Daryl Hall Quotes
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I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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Any song I don’t feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it’s because I want to.
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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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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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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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To me, there’s two kinds of music these days. There’s ephemeral music, and there’s music that has lasting power and depth.
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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