John Oates Quotes

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

The choruses are important for me. I want to say something, and sing-along is great.

There's something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening and receiving them, or singing them back to me, that I just can't get enough of.

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

I was put here to sing.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I'm here to sing.

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

I sang for 'Mirror Mirror.' I love singing.

You know that genie where you get three wishes? One that has never changed for me is I would like to sing, and move an audience through song.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.