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 HALLI 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 HALLSuccess and failure are equally surprising.
DARYL HALLI 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 HALLI 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 HALLEverybody 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 HALLI 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 HALLSmokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
DARYL HALLEvery artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
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.
DARYL HALLAs 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 HALLIf you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.
DARYL HALLAmericans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.
DARYL HALLAs I got older, my voice got better.
DARYL HALLI have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
DARYL HALLI 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 HALLI have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.
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