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" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "
John Oates
American
Style
Urban
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" In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about. "
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" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "
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" We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "
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" I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves. "
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" You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. "
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" I'm always reading something. "
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" Young people go to concerts. "
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" 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. "
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College
" I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000. "
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" Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. "
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" The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. "
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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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" You don't wanna be around your family constantly. "
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" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "
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Tastes
Like
" 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
Hit
" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "
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" My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. "
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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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" 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. "
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Riches
Spoiled
" We should have an easier name to pronounce. "
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Easier
Pronounce
Name
" When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. "
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First Time
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" Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. "
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Him
Well
" 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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" You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic. "
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