130 Quotes by John Oates

At some point in their career, most people do an album of great hits of other performers - a tribute album that shows their influences.

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

This music is like an old friend, one for whom you will always feel a kinship and closeness. When people hear this recording they will understand more clearly the roots of our original songs and perhaps have a bit more insight into where they really came from.

There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.

It keeps us loose. You go out here and everybody's intense and the expectations are so big, it just relaxes us a little bit. It helps take our minds off of things a little bit.

The thing is that we travel so much together that it wouldn't be a vacation. You get off the road and you're going to turn around and travel again?

I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the creative side. We have very different families, we're very different persons. But because we grew up in the same area and because we love the same music, we have a bond.