A biography for Daryl Hallhasn’t been written yet.
“What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.”
“I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.”
“I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.”
“Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.”
“Success and failure are equally surprising.”
“I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.”
“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.”
“I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.”
“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.”
“Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.”
“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.”
“If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.”
“Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.”
“You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.”
“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.”
“I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.”
“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.”
“Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.”
“You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.”
“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.”