John Oates Quotes
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.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
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I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.
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The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.
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I can?t deny it 100 percent, but at this point, there is no information to support that (report). Obviously, our hybrid (engines) work pretty well with smaller vehicles.
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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.
