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" Young people go to concerts. "
John Oates
Young
Go
Young People
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" I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. "
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" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "
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" To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. "
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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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" 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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" I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs. "
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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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" I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists. "
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Abyss
Foot
Music
" 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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Backpack
College
" 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. "
John Oates
Information
Friend
Music
" If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager. "
John Oates
Done
Through
Something
" The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. "
John Oates
Great
Songs
Katy Perry
" It's the music that brings us together. "
John Oates
Music
Us
Together
" 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. "
John Oates
Box
Way
You
" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "
John Oates
Variety
Tastes
Like
" I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. "
John Oates
Think
Social Media
Important
" 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. "
John Oates
Competitive
Names
People
" You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. "
John Oates
Know
You
Strike
" 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
" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "
John Oates
Used
Because
Class
" 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
" 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. "
John Oates
Think
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Music
" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "
John Oates
Good
Reasons
Mustache
" My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. "
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" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "
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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 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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American
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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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" The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. "
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Bricks
Music Business
Music