Daryl Hall & John Oates Quotes

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
Daryl Hall

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
Daryl Hall

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
Daryl Hall

This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
Daryl Hall 


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.
John Oates

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
John Oates

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
John Oates

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
John Oates

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

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

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.
John Oates

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

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
John Oates

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

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

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

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.
John Oates

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.
John Oates

It's the music that brings us together.
John Oates

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

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

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
John Oates

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
John Oates

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
John Oates

We should have an easier name to pronounce.
John Oates

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.
John Oates

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.
John Oates

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
John Oates

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
John Oates