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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 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
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
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
— 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
I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.
— John Oates
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
— 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 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
The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.
— 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
It's the music that brings us together.
— John Oates
Young people go to concerts.
— 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
I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
— 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
You don't wanna be around your family constantly.
— 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
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
— 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
