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

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. — John Oates

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. — John Oates

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

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy. — John Oates

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. — John Oates

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

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

I'm always reading something. — John Oates

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

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

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

We should have an easier name to pronounce. — John Oates

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

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. — John Oates

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. — John Oates

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. — John Oates

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. — John Oates

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

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. — John Oates

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

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. — John Oates

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. — John Oates

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

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

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. — John Oates

I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. — John Oates

When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. — John Oates

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

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

It's the music that brings us together. — John Oates

Young people go to concerts. — John Oates

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

I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. — John Oates

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

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. — 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 somewhere else. — John Oates

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

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

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. — John Oates

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. — John Oates

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. — John Oates

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

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates

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

You don't wanna be around your family constantly. — John Oates

When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. — John Oates

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. — 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'm bad at math. — John Oates

I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business. — John Oates

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

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

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves. — John Oates

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. — John Oates

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. — John Oates

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. — John Oates

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. — John Oates

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. — John Oates

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

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. — John Oates

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. — John Oates

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. — John Oates

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

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