Daryl Hall Hates Music Or Soemthing

Hall and Oates are one of those power duos of the 80s, with hits that I only hear when I have a fucking root canal and have to lay up in a dentist chair. The overweight receptionist loves the lite-Fm station and forces all the poor saps to listen to Sheryl Crow and Hall and Oates all the time.

When the calendar turned over to 1990, Hall and Oates became irrelevant and broke up. I forgot about Daryl Hall because he was the guy sans mustache. I remember in high school. Imagine me, awkward passive aggressive nerd. I remember overhearing a conversation between the cool girls. They discussed how their pussies were shaved and they wanted to ride John Oates big "pussy tickler." I tried to grow a mustache, but I didn't even have pubes yet, still don't. But that immediately skyrocketed John Oates as the coolest member of Hall and Oates.

Anyway, Oates and Hall did an interview with the AV Club where this question was asked:

The A.V. Club: At what point in your life did you make the transition from just enjoying music to saying, “Okay, this is going to be my career?”

Here was Daryl Hall's response:

Daryl Hall: I never enjoyed music.

AVC: Never?

DH: No. I’ve been a professional since I was 2 years old. It’s work. I come from a musical family, my mother was in a band… music to me was hard work. It was learning how to be in front of people, and how to deal with audiences. Practice, constant practice with instruments. It was never what most would call a pleasurable experience.

AVC: Even now, you’d say that?

DH: More so now even than then. I’m a professional musician. I have been my whole life. When people are born into the arts, they don’t tend to see art as pleasure, they see it as work.

I am going to file this under UNGRATEFUL. There are a shit load of musicians trying to make it in the business who love doing what they do. They still see it as art and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. There are even professional musicians who still love making music and don't see it as a chore.

Sure there are days when you don't want to get up and do your job, no matter how much you love it. But that wasn't what Daryl Hall said.

When your job stops being fun, change careers Mr. Hall. The Applebees down the street is hiring and needs an experienced waiter who is good with people. I can hand them your resume, if you need me to.