John Oates Quotes
"We should have an easier name to pronounce."
- John Oates
(Related: Name)
"To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me."
- John Oates
"The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done."
- John Oates
(Related: Style)
"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."
- John Oates
(Related: Business, Music)
"If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life."
- John Oates
(Related: Change, Life, Tomorrow)
"Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix."
- John Oates
(Related: People)
"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
(Related: Nothing, Teenagers, Years)
"It's the music that brings us together."
- John Oates
(Related: Music)
"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
(Related: Life, Needs)
"We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves."
- John Oates
(Related: Work, People)
"I have a great family, I live an amazing life."
- John Oates
(Related: Life, Family)
"If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends."
- John Oates
(Related: Music, Doubt, Friends)
"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
- John Oates
(Related: Manager, Needs)
"Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good."
- 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
(Related: People, Difference)
"You have to know when to strike and when to retreat."
- John Oates
"I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines."
- John Oates
"I just like playing with the band and doing what I do."
- John Oates
"I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong."
- John Oates
(Related: Wrong)
"I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio."
- John Oates
(Related: People)
"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
(Related: Music, Aspirations, Friends)
"I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people."
- John Oates
(Related: People, Crowds)
"If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing."
- John Oates
"I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well."
- John Oates
(Related: People, Name, Names)