John Oates [1948-0] American    
Rank: 103
Musician
Amazing, Christmas, Birthday, Family, Good, Great
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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. | Birthday | 101| A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. | Good | 102| I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. | | 103| I have a great family, I live an amazing life. | Amazing, Family, Great | 104| My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. | | 105| 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. | | 106| Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. | | 107| Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. | | 108| 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. | | 109| I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B. | | 110| Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. | | 111| 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. | | 112| It's the music that brings us together. | | 113| The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. | | 114| If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy. | | 115| 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. | | 116| I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. | | 117| 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. | | 118| If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. | | 119| To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. | Amazing | 120| You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. | | 121| The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. | Christmas | 122| 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. | | 123| 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. | | 124| When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. | | 125| 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. | | 126| 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. | | 201| I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. | | 202| We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. | | 203| The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done. | | 204| 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. | Christmas | 205| 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. | | 206| There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. | | 207| 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. | | 208| Young people go to concerts. | | 209| I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000. | | 210| I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. | | 211| My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. | | 212| My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. | | 213| 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. | | 214| I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. | | 215| If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager. | | 216| If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends. | | 217| 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. | | 218| If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. | | 219| I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. | | 220| 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. | | 221| I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. | | 222| I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. | | 223| Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. | | 224| 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. | | 225| We should have an easier name to pronounce. | | 226| 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. | | 301| 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. | | 302| With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. | | 303| You don't wanna be around your family constantly. | | 304| I'm bad at math. | | 305| 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. | | 306| 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. | | 307| I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. | | 308| When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. | | 309| 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. | | 310| When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. | | 311| I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.' | | 312| 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. | | 313| 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. | | 314| 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. | | 315| I've been asked to do various types of cruises. | | 316| I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. | | 317| I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. | | 318| 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. | | 319| 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!' | | 320| Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music. | | 321| Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. | | 322| The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. | | 323| 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. | | 324| If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome! | | 325| 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. | | 326| Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment. | | 401| 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. | | 402| 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. | | 403|
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