You don't want to pitch a tent and...... Quote by "John Oates"

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
— John Oates

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Other Quotes by "John Oates"

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

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If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!
— John Oates

Tags: everything, back, looks, glasses

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
— John Oates

Tags: always, song, yourself, you

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.
— John Oates

Tags: like, mood, consistency, window

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
— John Oates

Tags: decade, permanent, smiling, never