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The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.

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.

John Oates

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

John Oates

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

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

John Oates

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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When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.

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Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

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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.

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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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If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

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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.

John Oates

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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If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.

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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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I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

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Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

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I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

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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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I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

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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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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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If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

John Oates

The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.

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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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You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

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I'm always reading something.

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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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It's the music that brings us together.

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I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

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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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Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

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I'm bad at math.

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I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

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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 just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

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If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

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