John Oates Quotes

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

I can do nothing better than dance.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

All I do is make music.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

Songwriting has always been close to me.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

I know nothing other than singing and I feel blessed.