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 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 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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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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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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I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.
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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 don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
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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 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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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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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'm always interested in what fans think.