Daryl Franklin Hohl (Daryl Hall) Quotes
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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The music business will be revitalized by musicians, not the labels or Live Nation. When the musicians decide to put music first, instead of money, the public will flock to the fruits and the scene will be healthy again.
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The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.
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Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.
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In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.
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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
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Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
