Zitat des Tages von Daryl Hall:
Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.
This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.
I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
Success and failure are equally surprising.
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.
In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
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!
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.
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
I don't really strain my voice.
If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
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've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.
I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.
You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.
I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
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.
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.
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
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.
The Internet allows me to be more free.