Top 35 Daryl Hall Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.”

— Daryl Hall

2. “If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.”

— Daryl Hall

3. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

4. “To me, there’s two kinds of music these days. There’s ephemeral music, and there’s music that has lasting power and depth.”

— Daryl Hall

5. “I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.”

— Daryl Hall

6. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

7. “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?”

— Daryl Hall

8. “I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.”

— Daryl Hall

9. “I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.”

— Daryl Hall

10. “Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.”

— Daryl Hall

11. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

12. “Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.”

— Daryl Hall

13. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

14. “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!”

— Daryl Hall

15. “I never felt entitled to anything. I’m the hardest worker I know.”

— Daryl Hall

16. “I have an English family and I’ve lived in England for years.”

— Daryl Hall

17. “Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.”

— Daryl Hall

18. “Success and failure are equally surprising.”

— Daryl Hall

19. “The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.”

— Daryl Hall

20. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

21. “What I do isn’t black music; it’s just my music.”

— Daryl Hall

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

— Daryl Hall

23. “Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.”

— Daryl Hall

24. “I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I’m not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it’s cool.”

— Daryl Hall

25. “When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that’s an amazing feeling. I don’t think anything’s quite as good as that.”

— Daryl Hall

26. “I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.”

— Daryl Hall

27. “As I got older, my voice got better.”

— Daryl Hall

28. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

29. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

30. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

31. “Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.”

— Daryl Hall

32. “Any song I don’t feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it’s because I want to.”

— Daryl Hall

33. “Being at college, I think that’s the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.”

— Daryl Hall

34. “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.”

— Daryl Hall

35. “Americans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.”

— Daryl Hall

36. “Nobody’s going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.”

— Daryl Hall