- Nov 07, 2020
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- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
All artists have insecurity.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really strain my voice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows what the right time to get married is?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Move On
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a project, and then I move on.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
- Facility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.
- Enthused
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very enthused about everything. I have a lot to say and a lot of things I'm interested in.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been traveling around the world forever.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.
- Musician
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite an eclectic musician.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
- Continuum
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is a continuum.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet allows me to be more free.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, my voice got better.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always interested in what fans think.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
- Bouncing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black Music
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- Nov 07, 2020