John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— John Oates

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

— 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

I'm always reading something.

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

— John Oates

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends…

— John Oates

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll…

— John Oates

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

— 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 have a great family, I live an amazing life.

— John Oates

Young people go to concerts.

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

— John Oates

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's…

— John Oates

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs.…

— John Oates