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All artists have insecurity.
- Daryl Hall
#Artists
#Insecurity
If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
- Daryl Hall
#Build
#Good
#Work Hard
#Work
#Yourself
I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.
- Daryl Hall
#Always
#Believe
#Same Thing
#Say
#Truth
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.
- Daryl Hall
#Birth
#Just
#People
#Right
#Success
I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.
- Daryl Hall
#Comfortable
#Me
#Never
#Say
#Way
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
#Band
#Memories
#Mother
#She
#Teacher
If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
- Daryl Hall
#Courage
#Go
#Person
#Success
#Yourself
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.
- Daryl Hall
#Joke
#Me
#Never
#Turn
#Would
What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
- Daryl Hall
#Black Music
#Black
#Just
#Music
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
- Daryl Hall
#Antique
#Architecture
#Lot
#Love
#Old
I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
- Daryl Hall
#Before
#Disease
#House
#Live
#Way
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
- Daryl Hall
#Artist
#Back
#Career
#Honor
#Look
Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
- Daryl Hall
#Accused
#Get
#Lots
#Things
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
#Business
#Internet
#Me
#Music
#People
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
#Influence
#Music
#My Own
#Own
#Start
Who knows what the right time to get married is?
- Daryl Hall
#Knows
#Right Time
#Right
#Time
#Who
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
#Business
#Car
#Me
#Music
#Soul
The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
- Daryl Hall
#Crying
#Down
#Laughing
#Song
#Typical
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
#Bed
#Days
#Fever
#Go
#More
I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.
- Daryl Hall
#Anything
#Entitled
#Hardest
#Know
#Never
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
#Best
#Me
#Time
#Work
#World
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
#Favorite
#Me
#Says
#Song
Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
- Daryl Hall
#Dead
#Get
#Rid
#Want
#Wood
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.
- Daryl Hall
#Best
#Reason
#Time
#Voice
#Weird
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.
- Daryl Hall
#Communication
#Enough
#Late
#Visual
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
- Daryl Hall
#Circles
#Travel
#Unusual
#Wife
#Yes
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
- Daryl Hall
#Gone
#Marriage
#Relationship
I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.
- Daryl Hall
#Funny
#Guy
#Humor
#Sense Of Humor
#Sense
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