Top 45 Daryl Hall Quotes

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

I’ve watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I’ve watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I’ve watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

I’ve been traveling around the world forever.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

I do a project, and then I move on.

The Internet allows me to be more free.

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.

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

I don’t really strain my voice.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The ‘Daryl’s House’ thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

The song ‘Laughing Down Crying’ is not a typical Daryl song.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There’s no romance in obscurity.

You don’t have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

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.

I’m not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.

Any song I don’t feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it’s because I want to.

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.

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

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

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.

All artists have insecurity.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

As I got older, my voice got better.

Being at college, I think that’s the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

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.

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.

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.

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