Daryl Hall Quotes

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new.

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances.

I personally don't lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I'm very intimate with what I'm saying and why I'm saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play.

In the past, we never really had that kind of spontaneity on record. When you start touring, you play songs in a certain way and then I start to feel like it's tough to really get lost in my playing.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

I never sing a song the same way twice.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

I like to improvise.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

One can only improvise what one knows.

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.

Music happens. It cannot be made.

I love when things can repeat and you can make things slightly different each time and just react to the music and react to the recording.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.