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" 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. "
John Oates
Skills
Gone
Me
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" Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. "
John Oates
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Him
Well
" We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed. "
John Oates
Back
Two
Together
" 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. "
John Oates
Back
Early
People
" 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
" If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. "
John Oates
Tomorrow
Life
Touring
" When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. "
John Oates
People
Through
Way
" With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. "
John Oates
Culture
Take
His
" 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. "
John Oates
Own
Audience
System
" I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. "
John Oates
Doing
Band
Just
" 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
" 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
Like
Free
People
" It's the music that brings us together. "
John Oates
Music
Us
Together
" 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 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
" 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. "
John Oates
Rock
Love
Grunge
" 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
" 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
" Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. "
John Oates
Great
New People
People
" 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. "
John Oates
Yourself
Writing
See
" If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. "
John Oates
Would
Touring
Big
" 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
" 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 like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. "
John Oates
Get
Wrong
Like
" I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.' "
John Oates
Singing
She
Never
" I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves. "
John Oates
Musicians
Parents
Old
" My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. "
John Oates
Representation
Become
Weird
" 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
" 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. "
John Oates
Culture
Youth
World
" 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. "
John Oates
Mustache
Way
Want
" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "
John Oates
Like
Brothers
Something