John Oates Quotes

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall.

We're both big Glen Campbell fans - it's one of the things that united us in eternal love.

George was a late arrival at school and he was sort of put in my charge, and one of the immediate similarities was that we both enjoyed music - specifically Elton John.

The first time I met Janhvi on the sets, I took her to watch 'La La Land,' because she hadn't seen it. Soon, we started bonding over cinema - both of us are film buffs - and we realised we share a natural equation.

I like Bryan Caraway a lot; I used to train with him. I consider him a friend.

All these years later there's still something magical when we play. Who would've thought when we started out that 40 years later we'd still be together and people would still be interested.

I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I - not a hell of a lot of difference.

It started out ordinarily enough: In 1975, we were two boys that happened to share a mutual sense of humor, a love of life-affirming music, the records and artists it gave birth to, and a shared sense that we understood it.

Chickenfoot, my relationship with those guys is great.

I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

As you get older, sometimes you lose touch with people you were friends with in high school and college. But when you've been part of a legacy together, you should still find a way to see eye to eye.

Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.

You can be really romantic and put a lot of effort into friendship.

I consider Tom Gores a friend.

Music is my passion, it's my fun - but what's really important are the people I build a family with. That comes first.

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.

Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We've been very blessed to meet a lot of great bands, successful bands, that we can go tour with.

People wonder why a man and woman can't be friends after being in love. It is because it's very tough to look beyond the hurt and try to find a common ground to be friends. It's it like a healing wound.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.