Daryl Franklin Hohl (Daryl Hall) Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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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'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
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As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.
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My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
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What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
