130 Quotes by John Oates

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.

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.

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

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.

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

To me, when a great band is playing together, it’s amazing for me.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn’t change my life.

I like playing on stage, don’t get me wrong.

I couldn’t wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.