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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
Never
Smiling
Mustache
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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. "
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" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "
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" I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country. "
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" I'm bad at math. "
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" There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. "
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" With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. "
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" I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. "
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" If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy. "
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Drop
Joy
" We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. "
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Other
People
" You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. "
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" When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. "
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Through
Way
" 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. "
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Amazing
Relationship
Life
" 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
Abyss
Foot
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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. "
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Own
Audience
System
" 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. "
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Culture
Youth
World
" The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done. "
John Oates
Done
Style
Roots
" 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
Box
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You
" 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. "
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Rock
Love
Grunge
" When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. "
John Oates
Just
Wish
You
" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "
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Music
People
Sense
" If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome! "
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Looks
Awesome
Back
" 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. "
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Gone
Me
" 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
Good
Time
Unique
" Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. "
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Seen
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Well
" 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. "
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Two
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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. "
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Friend
Music
" 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. "
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