A biography for Daryl Hallhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm very enthused about everything. I have a lot to say and a lot of things I'm interested in.”
“I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.”
“I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.”
“The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'”
“The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.”
“I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.”
“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.”
“The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.”
“Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.”
“Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.”
“I don't really strain my voice.”
“The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.”
“I'm quite an eclectic musician.”
“I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.”
“I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.”
“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.”
“I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.”
“Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.”
“Art is a continuum.”
“I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.”