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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. "

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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. "

" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "

" 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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" I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.' "

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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!' "

" With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show. "

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" 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. "

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" I have a great family, I live an amazing life. "