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" You don't wanna be around your family constantly. "
John Oates
Wanna
Family
Around
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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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" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "
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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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" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "
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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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" 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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" To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. "
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" When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. "
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" I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Country
" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "
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" The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. "
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" I'm always reading something. "
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Always
Reading
" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "
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" If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends. "
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" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "
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" I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. "
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" I'm bad at math. "
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Math
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" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "
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I Wish
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" 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. "
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" If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy. "
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" 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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People
" 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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