Top 89 Quotes by John Oates

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

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.

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

I'm always reading something.

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.

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

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

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.