Daryl Hall Quotes

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.
Daryl Hall

Funny, Put, Happens

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
Daryl Hall

Death, Heart, Problems

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

Music, Everybody, Matters

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

Hope, Cool, Write

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

Black, Become, Place

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
Daryl Hall

Family, English, Lived

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

Else, Somebody, Telling

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

After, Away, Days

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.
Daryl Hall

Different, Working, Soul

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

Fun, Beginning, Influenced

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

Time, Waiting, Person

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

Teacher, Mother, Her

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

Work, Time, Best

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
Daryl Hall

Care, Else, Song

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
Daryl Hall

Work, Good, Yourself

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
Daryl Hall

Music, Business, Car

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Daryl Hall

Music, Start, Influence

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

Music, Business, Saying

This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
Daryl Hall

Best, Forward, Give

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
Daryl Hall

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

Travel, Wife, Yes

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Nationality: American

Born: October 11, 1946

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