I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop. – John Oates
If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that’s the real joy. – John Oates
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren’t getting it on the radio. – John Oates
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
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
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
Back in the early ’90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together. – John Oates
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. – John Oates
I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. – John Oates
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. – 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. – John Oates
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
If something that needs to be done that we don’t feel confronting, we do it through the manager. – John Oates
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. – John Oates
You’ve got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That’s what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free. – John Oates
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
When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that’s when I think everything changed. – John Oates