Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
DARYL HALLI wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I’m fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
More Daryl Hall Quotes
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Success and failure are equally surprising.
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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.
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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.
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If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.
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Nobody’s going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
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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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I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I’m fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
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Americans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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