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" 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
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" 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. "
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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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" With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. "
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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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" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "
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" 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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" 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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Way
You
" I've been asked to do various types of cruises. "
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" Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. "
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People
" If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. "
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" My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. "
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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. "
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Birthday
Clothes
Hair
" If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends. "
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Music
Doubt
Friends
" 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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Friends
Group
Small
" 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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Always
Idea
People
" We should have an easier name to pronounce. "
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Easier
Pronounce
Name
" 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. "
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Together
Way
People
" I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well. "
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Competitive
Names
People
" 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. "
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Think
Creative
Music
" 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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Music
People
" 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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Spring
Backpack
College
" 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. "
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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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Greed
Riches
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" Young people go to concerts. "
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Go
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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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