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" The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer. "
John Oates
Know
Far
Going
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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 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. "
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" If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. "
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" I'm always reading something. "
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Always
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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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" 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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Writing
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" I'm bad at math. "
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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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" 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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" With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. "
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Take
His
" Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. "
John Oates
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New People
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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. "
John Oates
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Everything
Country
" 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. "
John Oates
Rock
Love
Grunge
" The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions. "
John Oates
Own
Audience
System
" 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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Amazing
Relationship
Life
" Young people go to concerts. "
John Oates
Young
Go
Young People
" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "
John Oates
Variety
Tastes
Like
" 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. "
John Oates
Together
Way
People
" 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. "
John Oates
Need
You
Forever
" 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. "
John Oates
House
Fly
Night
" 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. "
John Oates
Skills
Gone
Me
" If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends. "
John Oates
Music
Doubt
Friends
" When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed. "
John Oates
Fame
Rock
Rock And Roll
" 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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Parents
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" I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. "
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" When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. "
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Just
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You
" 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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" There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. "
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Soul
American
Irish