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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. "
John Oates
Soul
American
Irish
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" 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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" The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record. "
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" I'm bad at math. "
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" I'm always reading something. "
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" We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed. "
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" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "
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" It's the music that brings us together. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "
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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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