Daryl Hall & John Oates Quotes
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Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
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You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.
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Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
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The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
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I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.
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Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
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I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
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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.
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I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.
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Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
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I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
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If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
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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.
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Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.
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I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
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There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.
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I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
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If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
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If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!
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The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.
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I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
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When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
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A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
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I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.