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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

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Daryl Hall
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 11
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Daryl Franklin Hohl
Daryl Hohl
Trying
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Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
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As I got older, my voice got better.
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Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
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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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What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.
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Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
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I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
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As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
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Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
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Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
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Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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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.
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I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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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.
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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.
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Success and failure are equally surprising.
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You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.
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I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.
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If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
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If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
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