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" The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money. "

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" 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. "

John Oates

Birthday

Clothes

Hair

" 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. "

" The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers. "

John Oates

First

Wake Up

" Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment. "

" 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. "

" My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. "

" I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country. "

" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "

" If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome! "

" 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. "

" The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. "

" I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business. "

" 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. "

" Young people go to concerts. "

John Oates

Young

Young People

" Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. "

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

" I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. "

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

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

" You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm always reading something. "

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

" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "

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

" I've been asked to do various types of cruises. "

" The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done. "

" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "

" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "

John Oates

Brothers

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