Quotes by John Oates - Page 2

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
John Oates / Guitarist
Big Picture
Fields
Music People Way
Egos
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Appreciate
Louvre
Moving
Somewhere Else
Inside
Somewhere
Check
Pitch
Tent
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Guy
Mustache
Anymore
John
Shaved
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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 / Guitarist
Americana
Authentic
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With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
John Oates / Guitarist
Honestly
Hall
Material
Years And Years
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Accelerate
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The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.
John Oates / Guitarist
Brother
Lonesome
Records
Wake Up
Bought
Brothers
Gibson
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Approach
Music Always Way
Music Way Always
Necessarily
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Decline
Labels
Decisions
Major
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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
John Oates / Guitarist
Abyss
Artist
Distribution
Music Business
Extreme
Artists
Foot
Indie
Major
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Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
John Oates / Guitarist
Mustache
Permanent
Persona
Seventies
Became
Component
Decade
Having
Smiling
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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 it started.
John Oates / Guitarist
Rock And Roll
Beginning
Entire
Rock
Popular
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Music
Information
Song
Very
Music Me Song
Friend
Listen
Record
Rarely
Sends
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You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
John Oates / Guitarist
Airplane
Fly
Hotels
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If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!
John Oates / Guitarist
Glasses
Nostalgic
Rosy
Awesome
Colored
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I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'
John Oates / Guitarist
Cool
Singles
Oh
Run
Oh My God
Releasing
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Rock And Roll
Voting
Actual
Circle
Hall
Inner
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Begin
Competitive
Nicest
Planet
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Spring
Backpack
Graduated
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Clothes
Embarrassed
May
Wacky
Way
Box
Attic
Hidden
Looked
Normally
Wore
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Disappear
Teenager
Two
Years
Go Away
Teenagers
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Easy
Stay
Together People Way
Difference
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There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
John Oates / Guitarist
Focused
Inspiration
Personal Satisfaction
Satisfaction
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The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
John Oates / Guitarist
Category
Considered
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I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.
John Oates / Guitarist
Consistency
Mood
Pacing
Window
Coherent
Stylistic
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Glad
Small Town
Aspirations
Hop
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Opportunity
Comfortable
Cruise
Gone
Jam
Skills
Solo
Immensely
Improved
Jamming
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Relationship
Amazing Life
Needs
Require
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Chicago
Clear
Defined
Detroit
Memphis
Philadelphia
Tradition
Unique
Distinct
Regional
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Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
John Oates / Guitarist
Nashville
Songwriters
Early
First People
Met
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Dream
Creative
Creative People
Fortunate
Granted
Position
Hall
Lets
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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 the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
John Oates / Guitarist
Birthday
Happy Birthday
Smile
Approach
Cake
Changed
Clothes
Hair
Icing
Song
Years
Songs
Same
Itself
Flavors
Look
Over
Production
Styles
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The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.
John Oates / Guitarist
Business
Efficient
Expensive
Going Crazy
Might
Point Of View
Return
Spending
Ever
Record
Learn
Making
Point
Product
View
Tons
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Boundaries
Country
Pop Music
Spread
Teenage
Youth
Youth Culture
American
Gospel
Bandstand
Clark
Music Culture World
Entire
Entire World
Eventually
Regional
Throughout
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Christmas
Framework
Hopefully
Unique
Time Work Good
Original
Somewhat
Work Time Good
Narrow
Personally
References
Same Time
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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.
John Oates / Guitarist
Wanted
Always People Anything
Album
Beginning
Idea
Liked
Hall
John
Monster
Note
Says
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I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.
John Oates / Guitarist
Bob
Don't Care
Dylan
Essence
Gershwin
Time Good Great
Bob Dylan
Elton
Elton John
George
Great Songs
Interpreted
John
Points
Porter
Recorded
Retain
Test
Whoever
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There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.
John Oates / Guitarist
Inspiration
Song
Writing
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I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.
John Oates / Guitarist
Country
Cowboy
Inspiration
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