John Oates

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

— John Oates

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

— John Oates

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

— John Oates

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

— John Oates

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

— John Oates

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

— John Oates

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

— John Oates

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

— 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…

— 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…

— John Oates

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So…

— John Oates

The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for…

— John Oates

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you…

— 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…

— John Oates

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as…

— 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…

— John Oates

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

— John Oates

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move…

— John Oates

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

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

— John Oates

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

— 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

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the…

— John Oates

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was…

— John Oates

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country…

— 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…

— 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,…

— John Oates

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the…

— John Oates