Daryl Franklin Hohl Quotes
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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
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I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.
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What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
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I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
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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.
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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.
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The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
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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.
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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.
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I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.
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My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
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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.
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I'm always interested in what fans think.
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Success and failure are equally surprising.
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I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
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I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
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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.
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Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.
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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.
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The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
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If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
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The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
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I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.
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I'm quite an eclectic musician.