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" I'm always reading something. "
John Oates
Something
Always
Reading
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" The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers. "
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" You don't wanna be around your family constantly. "
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" My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. "
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" You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. "
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" 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. "
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" We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. "
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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 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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Mood
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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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Early
People
" I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well. "
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Competitive
Names
People
" 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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Way
People
" I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it. "
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Me
Foundation
" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "
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" If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. "
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Life
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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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" I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. "
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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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Lot
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" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "
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Style
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" I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. "
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