Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Daryl Hall

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Daryl Franklin Hohl, known professionally as Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B and soul singer and musician, best known as the co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall & Oates. Outside of his work in Hall & Oates, he has also released five solo albums, including the 1980 progressive rock collaboration with guitarist Robert Fripp titled Sacred Songs and the 1986 album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, which provided his best selling single, "Dreamtime", that peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also collaborated on numerous works by other artists, such as Fripp's 1979 release Exposure, and Dusty Springfield's 1995 album A Very Fine Love, which produced a UK Top 40 hit with "Wherever Would I Be". Since late 2007, he has hosted the streaming television series Live from Daryl's House, in which he performs alongside other artists, doing a mix of songs from each's catalog. The show has been rebroadcast on a number of cable and satellite channels as well.

American - Musician | Born: October 11, 1946

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

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Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

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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!

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I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

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I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

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

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If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

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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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For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.

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Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

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Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.

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The Internet allows me to be more free.

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In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.

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I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

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

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Success and failure are equally surprising.

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As I got older, my voice got better.

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The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

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I'm quite an eclectic musician.

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Having a solo career is a funny thing.

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I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.

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

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I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

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To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

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

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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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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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What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

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I've been traveling around the world forever.

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In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

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I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

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

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I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.

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My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.

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

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

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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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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?

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Art is a continuum.

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I'm always interested in what fans think.

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I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

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

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The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

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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.

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I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

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

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I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

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