John Oates Quotes

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

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• I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.

  

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• I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

  

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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

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• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

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• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  

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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
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• Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

  

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• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

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• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

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• Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

  

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• House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it.

  

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• I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

  

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• My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

  

  Martha Wainwright
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• I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

  

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