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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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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I've been on stage since I was eight.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
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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.
