Daryl Hall

Musician

1946-10-11

Quotes by Daryl Hall

• I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.

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• You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

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• To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

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• I don't really strain my voice.

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• I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

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• 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.

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• If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

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• I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

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• If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

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• I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

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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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• I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

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• Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

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• The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

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• I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

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• I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

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• I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.

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• Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

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• The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

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