Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall
Daryl Franklin Hohl, better known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B, and soul singer; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth11 October 1946
CityPottstown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
built houses miles piece took west
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.
base hopes
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.
beyond greater people surrounds time true worth
I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.
century changed music
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.
music people sound
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.
amount call certain companies courage indie outrageous record screw success takes whatever
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.
career funny solo
Having a solo career is a funny thing.
looked people
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
time
Who knows what the right time to get married is?
front layered piece playing work
When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.
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.
typical
The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.