John Oates

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

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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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To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

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

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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 realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

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My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

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

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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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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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Quotes by John Oates