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" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "

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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. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You don't wanna be around your family constantly. "

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

" 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. "

" If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. "

" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We should have an easier name to pronounce. "

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

" 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. "

" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "

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

" 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. "