John Oates Quotes

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.

John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

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• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Artist

• My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Play

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Age
  • Nothing

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Space
  • Kind

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Fun

• Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Cool

• I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Stage
  • Sense
  • Elements

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • People
  • Travel

• I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Complaining

• Millennials are a bit more free-spirited, more able to go into new places, to feel more assertive and fearless about trying new things.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Trying
  • Free
  • Fearless

• I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • Important
  • Family
  • Bible

• It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • House
  • Night
  • Free