A biography for Daryl Hallhasn’t been written yet.
“I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.”
“I do a project, and then I move on.”
“The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.”
“All artists have insecurity.”
“Who knows what the right time to get married is?”
“I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.”
“I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.”
“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.”
“The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.”
“I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!”
“You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.”
“Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.”
“Having a solo career is a funny thing.”
“My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.”
“I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.”
“The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.”