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

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

Daryl Hall

If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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

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.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Daryl Hall

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

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

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

Daryl Hall

I don't really strain my voice.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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.

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.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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

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

Daryl Hall

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

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.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

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

The Internet allows me to be more free.

Daryl Hall