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

Circles Cousin Trave Wife
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.
DARYL HALL

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

Hard Millions Nobody Records
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
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
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
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
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 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.
DARYL HALL

Century Creativity Mean Medium Teenager Waiting
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
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 to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.
DARYL HALL

Comfortable Tell Way
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
As I got older, my voice got better.
DARYL HALL

Better Older Voice

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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