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