List of John Oates Quotes

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.

My Guitar Playing Is A Synthesis Of Traditional American Acoustic Style And Urban Pop And Rb.

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.

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.

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.

Swimming Upstream In The Music Business Is A Hard Thing To Do.

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.

I Like Playing On Stage, Don't Get Me Wrong.

The First Record I Bought Myself Could Have Been 'oh Lonesome Me' By Don Gibson Or 'wake Up Little Susie' By The Everly Brothers.

We Collaborate Together. We Work With Other People. We Work By Ourselves.

If Daryl Stopped Touring It Would Be A Big Part Of Him Missing.

The Bricks And Mortar Of The Music Business, They Don't Exist Any Longer.