Daryl Franklin Hohl Quotes
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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.
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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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The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
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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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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 younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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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.
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Success and failure are equally surprising.
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Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
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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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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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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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I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
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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.
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The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
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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.