You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. John Oates More Quotes by John Oates More Quotes From John Oates Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. John Oates music-business things-to-do swimming My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB. John Oates style guitar synthesis If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. John Oates changing-my-life touring tomorrow We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. John Oates together people If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. John Oates touring would-be missing-you 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. John Oates youth style music culture The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way. John Oates old mustache want way Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. John Oates smiling never mustache permanent I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. John Oates i-wish small wish people I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. John Oates musically things like variety 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. John Oates guitar college gone spring If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager. John Oates manager something feel done It's the music that brings us together. John Oates brings us music together If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends. John Oates whether friends music doubt Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way. John Oates easy together people way I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. John Oates doing just like band I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. John Oates hit behind things headlines
