John Oates
John Oates
John William Oates is an American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and record producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo, Hall & Oates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth7 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
became component decade persona
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
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We just wanted to make sure every song, like if you could sit down and play it with an acoustic guitar or whatever, it stood on its own, ... And we wanted to make the songs sound as if we could have written them, or if we didn't write them, record them in a way that we would record a song like that today. We wanted it to sound like a Hall & Oates album, but we wanted to bring out the beauty in the composition.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
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We had a good run in the '70s but we got really big in the early '80s, ... It was a whirlwind. It was non-stop demands. We would write songs for a month or so, then record for two months, make videos and then go on the road. We put out a record a year from 1971 to 1985. We had more than one record some years. My personal life was my professional life. There was no down time.
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I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
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I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.
life
Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
groups
I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
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I grew up in Pennsylvania, only fifteen miles away from Daryl where all the local kids with a German background looked like he did.
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I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.
americana
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
spoiled
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
affect almost wanna wish
When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.