I don’t care if it’s a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs. John Oates Read Quote
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. John Oates Read Quote
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. John Oates Read Quote
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren’t getting it on the radio. John Oates Read Quote
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. John Oates Read Quote
