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" 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. "

John Oates

Window

Mood

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John Oates

Brothers

Something

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

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

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

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

" I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000. "

" 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've been asked to do various types of cruises. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have a great family, I live an amazing life. "

" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "

John Oates

Variety

Tastes

" 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

Free

People

" My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. "

" 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. "

" Young people go to concerts. "

" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "

" 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. "

" When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. "

" 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. "