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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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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I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
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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.
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We get a lot of the new songs in, but we play a lot of the old classics and even some stuff that people don't expect,
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We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.
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Funny, even though we're known as Philly musicians and our sound is predicated on that, I lived in Philly just four years, ... Then we both moved to NYC and lived there throughout the '70s and '80s.
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I don't require what Daryl requires. He likes the performance a lot more than I do. I enjoy playing with a great band. I don't need to tour.