'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
— John Oates
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
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.
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
It's the music that brings us together.
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.
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
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.
I'm bad at math.
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.
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.
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.
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
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.
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.
When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
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.
The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.
You don't wanna be around your family constantly.
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.
Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
