Daryl Hall & John Oates Quotes
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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 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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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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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
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Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.
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Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
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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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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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We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
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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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If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
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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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Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
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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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To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
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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 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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I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
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I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
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Young people go to concerts.
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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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A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
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When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.