Explore Quotes by Daryl Hall

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

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.

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

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.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

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.

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.

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

I don't really strain my voice.

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

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.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 total improvisation.

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?

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