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" When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. "
John Oates
Remember
First Time
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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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" 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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" My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. "
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" 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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" The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. "
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" I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. "
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" The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. "
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" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "
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" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "
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" Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. "
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" The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. "
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" I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. "
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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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" 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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Gone
Me
" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "
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I Wish
People
" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "
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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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Music
People
" I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business. "
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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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Fly
Night
" I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. "
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Because
Good
" 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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