Daryl Hall & John Oates Quotes
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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
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You don't wanna be around your family constantly.
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I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
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Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
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We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
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Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.
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When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.
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There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.
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A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
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I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
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We should have an easier name to pronounce.
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Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
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Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
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I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
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You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
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I'm always reading something.
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If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
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There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.