Daryl Franklin Hohl Quotes
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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 have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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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 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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Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.
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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
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The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
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Who knows what the right time to get married is?
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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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Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
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I don't really strain my voice.
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You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.
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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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I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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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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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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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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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
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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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Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.