130 Quotes by John Oates

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

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's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.