Daryl Hall Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.”

“The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I do a project, and then I move on.”

“I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.”

“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.”