Daryl Franklin Hohl Quotes
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I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.
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As I got older, my voice got better.
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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
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If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
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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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I've been traveling around the world forever.
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I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
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Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.
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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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I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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All artists have insecurity.
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In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.
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Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
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Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.
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You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
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Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
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You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.
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I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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I don't really strain my voice.
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I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
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If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.
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Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.
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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.