John Oates Quotes


You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. - John Oates


We've never been apart... The whole time, we've been working and recording. So it's not about coming back. It's about continuing. I understand why (some people) might think we had disappeared. Our visibility has been almost nil. But the point is, we're a working band. - 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. - John Oates


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


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. - John Oates


We had a good run in the '70s but we got really big in the early '80s... It was a whirlwind. It was non-stop demands. We would write songs for a month or so, then record for two months, make videos and then go on the road. We put out a record a year from 1971 to 1985. We had more than one record some years. My personal life was my professional life. There was no down time. - John Oates


We get a lot of the new songs in, but we play a lot of the old classics and even some stuff that people don't expect. - John Oates


We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. - John Oates


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