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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.

Daryl Hall

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

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

Circles Cousin Trave Wife
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.
DARYL HALL

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

Hard Millions Nobody Records
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.
DARYL HALL

Causes Heart Problem
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.
DARYL HALL

Difference Differences Generations People Record Saying
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
DARYL HALL

Gone Marriage Relationship Stepchild Stepchildren
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 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

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 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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