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
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I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
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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.
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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 think we realized this is a good time now because people really do want to hear some realistic songs, something that has some substance to it.
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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.
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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.
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I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
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I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
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The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.
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I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
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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.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
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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.
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Most relationships where two people have the same motivation, needs, desires and requirements... there's usually a butting of heads at one point.