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" 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
Music
Beginning
Experience
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" Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment. "
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Need
You
Forever
" Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. "
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Life
Motivation
" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "
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Used
Because
Class
" If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. "
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Birthday
Clothes
Hair
" 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. "
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Mustache
Way
Want
" 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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Blues
Everything
Country
" I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business. "
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Yourself
Business
Key
" In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique. "
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Music
Unique
Personality
" 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. "
John Oates
Spring
Backpack
College
" When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. "
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Just
Wish
You
" My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. "
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Person
Evolved
Just
" I have a great family, I live an amazing life. "
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Life
Amazing
Family
" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "
John Oates
Wait
School
High School
" 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
Information
Friend
Music
" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "
John Oates
Music
People
Sense
" 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
" 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
Music
" Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music. "
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Like
Free
People
" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "
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Good
Reasons
Mustache
" 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
" When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. "
John Oates
Remember
First Time
Radio
" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "
John Oates
Like
Brothers
Something
" The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category. "
John Oates
Job
Only
Same
" 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
Same
Easy
I Can
" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "
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American
Style
Urban
" 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. "
John Oates
Time
Good
Care
" 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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Soul
American
Irish
" To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. "
John Oates
Band
Amazing
Together
" I've been asked to do various types of cruises. "
John Oates
Cruises
Been
Asked