Top 89 Quotes by John Oates

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'm bad at math.

If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

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 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!'

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

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

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.