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I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.

Daryl Hall

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 have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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Gone Marriage Relationship Stepchild Stepchildren
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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Philadelphia Thinking Years
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
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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Artific Definitely Dislike Pomposity People Perceive Song Writing
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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Beginning Fun Mtv Pioneers
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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Circles Cousin Trave Wife
Americans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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Country Popular Something Thinking
When 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.
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Amazing Flash Hands Moth Thinking Writing
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
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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Around Arrangement Scatty Singers Song Trying
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
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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Bob Care Everybody Green Matter
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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Century Creativity Mean Medium Teenager Waiting
Success and failure are equally surprising.
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Failure Success Surprising
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

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.

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