Daryl Hall Quotes

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

I don't even start singing anything until the mic is on and recording, because my first ideas are usually my best ones. So I'll just press record; I'll freestyle a whole three minutes.

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

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I like to improvise.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I might be eating something, and the bag opens in a cool way, and I'm like, 'I wanna put that in the song.'

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

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.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.