John Oates
John Oates
John William Oates is an American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and record producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo, Hall & Oates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth7 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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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 couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
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Most relationships where two people have the same motivation, needs, desires and requirements... there's usually a butting of heads at one point.
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I think we realized this is a good time now because people really do want to hear some realistic songs, something that has some substance to it.
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At some point in their career, most people do an album of great hits of other performers - a tribute album that shows their influences.
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Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
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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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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 have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
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I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.
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The thing is that we travel so much together that it wouldn't be a vacation. You get off the road and you're going to turn around and travel again?
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I read and fantasized about the European racing scene by pouring over my old collection of Road and Track that goes back to the late 40's.
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I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
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The idea was to take these great songs, take them out of their production style and their dated recording style, and show them for the songs that they are--as if you had just played them on an acoustic guitar. It's all about timeless songwriting, really.