130 Quotes by John Oates

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.

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.

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

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.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.