John Oates
Related MAURY YESTON When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ RUSSELL SMITH GEORGE HARRISON HENRY ROLLINS Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not si... ROBIN THICKE TONY BENNETT BEN KINGSLEY MAYA ANGELOU CHRIS CORNELL ACTION BRONSON A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don&#... BRANTLEY GILBERT AURORA I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don... JOANNA NEWSOM ETHEL MERMAN ETTA JAMES CHRIS MARTIN TOM WAITS CHRIS CORNELL COLE SWINDELL Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha... THE EDGE PETE SEEGER COREY TAYLOR What should a song be about? It's a trick question for songwriters because lots of amazing songs... ADAM SCHLESINGER Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync o... TOMMY MOTTOLA GREG GRAFFIN What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those t... ZEDD There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at d... EDGAR WINTER I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,... NAYVADIUS CASH When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba... RANDY BACHMAN GARY ALLAN GEORGE HARRISON EDIE BRICKELL I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much ... ART ALEXAKIS I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&... ERIC AVERY There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their sho... JAKE OWEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ED SHEERAN CHANTAL KREVIAZUK REBA MCENTIRE If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion... JASON ISBELL GEORGE CLOONEY You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zer... BRETT SCALLIONS You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zer... BRETT SCALLIONS Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or ... KARA DIOGUARDI I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible... DAN HILL YAEL NAIM It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that ... DAVID NAIL But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou... BILLY BRAGG Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about... IAN MACKAYE ELTON JOHN One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elto... TOM ODELL I would make the mistake of playing [songs] for the other guys, and they would pick the three or fou... STEPHEN STILLS I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio... ALEXA RAY JOEL DAVE GROHL I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s... BARRY MANN It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a... TANYA TUCKER I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold ... TOM ODELL I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any v... ISAAC BROCK RICK WRIGHT John Lennon and Paul McCartney 's childhood homes were preserved because they spent a significant pa... FLO CLUCAS I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. BOB LIVINGSTON EDGAR WRIGHT JOHN LENNON We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't ... L.A. REID DAVID LYNCH MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes... SHANE HARPER I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who... CARMEN EJOGO STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ... BETTY WHO My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four... IMOGEN HEAP You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zer... BRETT SCALLIONS Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question an... JANELLE MONAE Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS EMINEM That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs... MICK RALPHS JENNIFER HUDSON We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are... JASON ALDEAN J. D. SOUTHER MARY LAMBERT When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 son... MAC DEMARCO A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place... DARON MALAKIAN I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't g... PHIL ANSELMO In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don'... CHEECH MARIN OLLY MURS LAUREN BACALL PETE SEEGER MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require... CARMEN EJOGO Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and th... JASON REITMAN Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't ... EMMY ROSSUM LEONARD COHEN CEELO GREEN You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, whe... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE EDDIE VEDDER GEORGE HARRISON GEORGE HARRISON
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To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY JOHN TYLER JOHN LENNON JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY
For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To... 
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery o... 
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son... 
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to... 
For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Ker... 
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st... 
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of ... 
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to song... 
You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs tha... 
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... 
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ... 
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, tha... 
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo... 
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and ... 
Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever woul... 
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in ... 
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... 
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don&#... 
I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ... 
To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with... 
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long... 
The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereot... 
Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they we... 
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... 
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protes... 
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; yo... 
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key... 
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're... 
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, co... 
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something... 
Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything... 
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I ... 
I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s... 
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of... 
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make n... 
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music... 
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... 
I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes ... 
You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is... 
Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six mon... 
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. 
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either 
I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if y... 
When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton Jo... 
I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a s... 
I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs li... 
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. 
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. 
Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where pe... 
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ... 
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think ge... 
In love there are two things -- bodies and words. 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 