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John Oates is an American musician and songwriter best known as one half of the duo Hall & Oates. His collaboration with Daryl Hall produced numerous hits in the pop and rock genres, including "Rich Girl" and "Private Eyes." Oates' contributions to music and his role in the success of Hall & Oates have established him as a significant figure in popular music.
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"I have a great family, I live an amazing life."

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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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"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."

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"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."

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"It's the music that brings us together."

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"I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people."

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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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"If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life."

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"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."

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"If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends."

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"Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix."

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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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"I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong."

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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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"We should have an easier name to pronounce."

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"I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio."

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"We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves."

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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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"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."

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