John Oates Quotes

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• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to…
• 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…
• Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
• We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
• With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
• In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition…
• I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
• When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
• Young people go to concerts.
• I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
• I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
• A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
• My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
• Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
• I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.
• When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
• The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.
• 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…
• 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…
• If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

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