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“I dont care if its a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.”
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“A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.”

— John Oates

“If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.”

— John Oates

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

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“I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.”

— John Oates

“I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.”

— John Oates

“The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.”

— John Oates

“To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.”

— John Oates

“You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.”

— John Oates

“Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.”

— John Oates

“When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.”

— John Oates

“We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.”

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There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

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I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

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“Young people go to concerts.”

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My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

— John Oates

“I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.”

— John Oates

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

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“When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed.”

— John Oates

“I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.”

— John Oates

“I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.”

— John Oates

“I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.”

— John Oates

“We should have an easier name to pronounce.”

— John Oates

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

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“Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.”

— John Oates

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

— John Oates

“I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.”

— John Oates

“I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.”

— John Oates

“I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.”

— John Oates

“I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.”

— John Oates

“If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!”

— John Oates

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

— John Oates

“If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.”

— John Oates

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

— John Oates

“The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.”

— John Oates

“The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.”

— John Oates

“The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.”

— John Oates

“The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.”

— John Oates

“When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.”

— John Oates

“When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.”

— John Oates

“With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.”

— John Oates

“With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.”

— John Oates

“Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.”

— John Oates

“Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.”

— John Oates

“I couldn't begin to name names ... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet ... and some of the nicest as well.”

— John Oates

“I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.”

— John Oates

“In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.”

— John Oates

“Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.”

— John Oates

“There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.”

— John Oates

“Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.”

— John Oates

“I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.”

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