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" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "
John Oates
Like
Brothers
Something
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" Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together. "
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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. "
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" I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.' "
John Oates
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" 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. "
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" I've been asked to do various types of cruises. "
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Been
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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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" You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free. "
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" The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. "
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" My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. "
John Oates
Representation
Become
Weird
" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "
John Oates
Swimming
Hard
Business
" Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. "
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Great
New People
People
" I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. "
John Oates
Get
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Like
" 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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" When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed. "
John Oates
Fame
Rock
Rock And Roll
" Young people go to concerts. "
John Oates
Young
Go
Young People
" 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
" If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. "
John Oates
Tomorrow
Life
Touring
" 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!' "
John Oates
Cool
Music
People
" 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
" I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. "
John Oates
Things
Lot
Hit
" 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
" Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. "
John Oates
Kind
Life
Motivation
" If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager. "
John Oates
Done
Through
Something
" 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. "
John Oates
Birthday
Clothes
Hair
" I'm bad at math. "
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Math
Bad
" 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
" I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture. "
John Oates
Think
Creative
Music
" If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. "
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Would
Touring
Big
" 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
" 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
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