Daryl Hall Quotes

For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked, 'Are you signed to anybody?' So we went to the studio a few days later, spoke, and then became business partners.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.

Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel a part of anything in any music business.

Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.

I am making good music, and I want people to listen to it.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

I was actually signed at a very young age - I was 12 - and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.