John Oates Music Quotations

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

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

The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

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.

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

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.

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.

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.