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" The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. "
John Oates
Great
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Katy Perry
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" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "
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" It's the music that brings us together. "
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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. "
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" When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. "
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" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "
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" Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music. "
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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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" 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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" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "
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" If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome! "
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" I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country. "
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" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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!' "
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" You don't wanna be around your family constantly. "
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" I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. "
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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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" 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 just like playing with the band and doing what I do. "
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" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "
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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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" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "
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" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "
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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. "
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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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