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I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
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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 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 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 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.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
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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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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
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Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
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I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
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I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.
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I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
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.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
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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The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
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I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
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In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
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I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
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The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
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The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
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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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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