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In the early '70s, I started ...

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.

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I've always been a guy who li...

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

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I knew that I would be making...

I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.

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My house is actually two hous...

My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.

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As a singer, I float around. ...

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.

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Every artistic form has its g...

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

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I specialize in early homes, ...

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.

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I think Philadelphia has been...

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

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I'm in the trenches; I do the...

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.

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If Paul McCartney tells me th...

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?

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I always say the same thing -...

I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

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Smokey Robinson is one of my ...

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

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To write a good song, an arti...

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.

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I wanted to show the world, a...

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.

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The song 'Laughing Down Cryin...

The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

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I've always been a spontaneou...

I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

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When I was a kid, I always lo...

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

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The biggest honor of my caree...

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.

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Everybody who I ever cared ab...

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.

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Most artists try to avoid cli...

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

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