Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by John Oates
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician John Oates.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.
The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
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.
You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
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.
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.
Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
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.
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
I'm bad at math.
It's the music that brings us together.
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
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.
I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
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.
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
You don't wanna be around your family constantly.
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.
I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
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.
My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'
I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.
I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
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.
Young people go to concerts.
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
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.
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
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.
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