Daryl Franklin Hohl Quotes
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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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I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
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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 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 biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
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I'm always interested in what fans think.
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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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Having a solo career is a funny thing.
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I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.
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If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
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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 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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The Internet allows me to be more free.
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You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
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I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.
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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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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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I'm quite an eclectic musician.
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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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If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.
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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 have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
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I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.
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I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.