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Dan Hill

Canadian Musician

Born: Jun 3, 1954

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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time. Dan Hill

Time Sometimes Songs Connected Sociology

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali. Dan Hill

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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down. Dan Hill

Life Myself You Better My Life Down Active Living Think Kicked One Of The Things Running Stay About More Had Knew Feel Come Freeze Make Because Demons Up Did Going Stop Unfold Naturally Even Keep Actually Things Drag

Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding. Dan Hill

Day Philippines Poverty Top Several Astounding One Day Ranks Toronto About Rise Through Had Weight Divisions Piece Sport Boxer His Won Different Titles Noticed Who Flipping Star Phenomenal

All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser. Dan Hill

Nothing Conviction Records Loser Did Gold Grammy Platinum

Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals. Dan Hill

Conversation Suffering Exactly Allen Hot Individuals Couples Nor Eighties Woody Woody Allen Dysfunctional Movies Notwithstanding Therapy Activity Early Starter

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19. Dan Hill

Age Sometimes First Touch Since Wrote How Version Oh Travelled

The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over. Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her. Dan Hill

You Fool Wife Kind Generous Mess She Unusually Her

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run. Dan Hill

Music Training Will Long Pay Run Athletic Classes More Facilities Mentoring Invest Long Run Priority So-Called Skills Now

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am. Dan Hill

Life Me Man Writing Father Made Husband Back Mine Way About More He Missed Him Sort Understand How Am His Died Getting Much Bringing

With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved. Dan Hill

Love Son Will Our Everything Our Love Tried Push He Feel Him Judgmental How How Much Achieved Want Much Hard Based

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions. Dan Hill

Living Songwriters Because Passions Off Many Peak Early Early 20s

You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more. Dan Hill

You Heart Sometimes Sex Imagination Those Married Hurting Touch More Rely Write Emotional Badly Empathy Powers Opposite Opposite Sex Been Years Get Roller Happens Then Your Using Start

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice. Dan Hill

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects. Dan Hill

Work Me Creative People Stream Recording Hundreds Hundreds Of People Projects Musician Out Recording Artist Songwriter Studio Due Author Artist Help Basement

At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed. Dan Hill

Me Man Heart School Feeling Diamond Solitary Neil Empathy Smashed Masterpiece Narrator Heard Stood Moved Frozen Place Deeply Recess

You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber. Dan Hill

You Black Tell Discovers Front Artists Centre Justin Justin Bieber Usher

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists. Dan Hill

Me People Fans Become Few Lock Slippery Rather Mysterious Beasts Songs Like Hit Than Artists Them Means Many

Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster. Dan Hill

You People Faster Incredible Way Toronto More More And More More People Driving Because Around Off Efficient Get Getting Being Wanting Exploding Turned Biking Much Congestion Cycle Cyclists

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