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" 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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" 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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" 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!' "

" My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. "

" 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 think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture. "

" 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. "

" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "

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

" I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. "

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

" 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. "

" When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. "

" I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. "

" 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. "

" There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity. "

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