Daryl Hall & John Oates Quotes
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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 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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I'm bad at math.
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If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
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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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My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
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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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I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
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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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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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Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
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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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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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When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
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With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
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Young people go to concerts.
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Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
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With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
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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 wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
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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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To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
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The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.
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When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.