130 Quotes by John Oates

With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.

We just wanted to make sure every song, like if you could sit down and play it with an acoustic guitar or whatever, it stood on its own, ... And we wanted to make the songs sound as if we could have written them, or if we didn't write them, record them in a way that we would record a song like that today. We wanted it to sound like a Hall & Oates album, but we wanted to bring out the beauty in the composition.

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.