John Oates famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- John Oates

#Happy Birthday #Song #Cake
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.
-- John Oates

#Teenager #Years #Two
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
-- John Oates

#Swimming #Funny Swimming #Music Business
We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
-- John Oates

#People #Together
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
-- John Oates

#Men #Mustache #Reason
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
-- John Oates

#School #Waiting #Mustache
There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.
-- John Oates

#Song #Inspiration #Writing
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
-- John Oates

#Retreat #Strikes #Knows
The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
-- John Oates

#Roots #Style #Done
My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
-- John Oates

#Mustache #Eras #Certain
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.
-- John Oates

#Relationship #Amazing Life #Needs
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

#Moving #Native American #Soul
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
-- John Oates

#Together #Band #Playing Together
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
-- John Oates

#Tomorrow #Touring #Changing My Life
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
-- John Oates

#Family #Amazing Life #Family Life
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
-- John Oates

#People #Sometimes
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

#Clothes #May #Way
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.
-- John Oates

#Opportunity #Skills #Gone
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
-- John Oates

#Bricks And Mortar #Bricks #Mortar
If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
-- John Oates

#Missing You #Would Be #Touring
The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.
-- John Oates

#Brother #Wake Up #Records
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.
-- John Oates

#Moving #Somewhere Else #Appreciate
I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.
-- John Oates

#Country #Inspiration #Cowboy
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.
-- John Oates

#Guitar #Style #Synthesis
I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.
-- John Oates

#Stage

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