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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

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

Good Hard Work Something
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
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
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 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
Americans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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Country Popular Something Thinking
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
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 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
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
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.
DARYL HALL

Causes Heart Problem
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
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’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

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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