Quotes by Daryl Hall

About Daryl Hall:

Daryl Franklin Hohl is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John Oates).
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You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

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

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Having a solo career is a funny thing.

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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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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.

Daryl Hall

I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

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

Daryl Hall

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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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 never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

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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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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

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

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

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

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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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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 t...

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameDaryl Hall
  • DescriptionAmerican musician and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates
  • AliasesDaryl Franklin Hohl
  • BornOctober 11, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Singer