Explore Quotes by John Oates

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

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

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

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.

There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.

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.

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

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

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

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.