Oates, John Filmography

• John Denver Rocky Mountain High: An Earth Day Concert (2011)
• The 9th Annual TV Land Awards (2011)
• You Again (2010)
• Live from Daryl's House: A New Year's Eve Special (2010)
• Christmas Celebration at the Grove (2006)
• Hall & Oates: Our Kind of Soul (2005)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (2004)
• Live by Request: Hall & Oates (2003)
• I Love the '80s Strikes Back (2003)
• Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2002)
• We Are the World: A 10th Anniversary Tribute (1995)
• Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin (1991)
• Evolution's End? (1991)
• Heavy Petting (1989)
• The 16th Annual American Music Awards (1989)
• Hall & Oates: Live at the Apollo (1987)
• Hall & Oates: Live at the Apollo (1987)
• Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid (1986)
• Live Aid (1985)
• We Are the World (1985)
• MTV Video Music Awards 1985 (1985)
• The 12th Annual American Music Awards (1985)
• The 11th Annual American Music Awards (1984)
• DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues (1984)
• The 10th Annual American Music Awards (1983)
• Hall & Oats in Concert (1982)

Oates, John Filmography

• Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary (2007)

• Camellia - Hall & Oates
• Alone Too Long - Hall & Oates

(John Oates)
Opening night, nothing new Atlanta
Into the spotlight, one more time
Just in time to play
To one man and an empty table
He was drinking down the pain
All he could say was this lady's name...
Oh Camellia won't you take me away
After the show, when the room was empty
No, he wouldn't go
So I asked him why he called her name
It seems she was some magic one night
With something for his pain
But all she left was a pretty name...
Oh Camellia won't you take me away
To paradise tropical moon
Don't you leave me sitting here in Atlanta

(John Oates)
Just a little boy lost looking for a lamb in the all night city
Living in his lonely limousine
And though he never has to worry
He's the only one and only one he's ever gonna need
Absolutely he's in definite need
Of a woman, child, and some better kind of love when the hot town's hurt him
And he knows how happy he could be
But he don't know if he can make it
Between the money and another lonely night
But now the time has come
Got to stay or run
Now the time has come
Oh maybe we've been Alone Too Long
And you don't want to be lonely
Another pretty face another body ache still awake three-thirty
Dial another number -- No one home
So he wastes his time with TV
And he wonders if he lost the only one
And wonders if he's free
Too afraid to see
How alone he could be
Oh maybe we've been Alone Too Long
And you don't want to be lonely

Famous quotes by John Oates:

"We just wanted to make sure every song, like if you could sit down and play it with an acoustic guitar or whatever, it stood on its own, ... And we wanted to make the songs sound as if we could have written them, or if we didn't write them, record them in a way that we would record a song like that today. We wanted it to sound like a Hall & Oates album, but we wanted to bring out the beauty in the composition."

"We get a lot of the new songs in, but we play a lot of the old classics and even some stuff that people don't expect,"

"This music is like an old friend, one for whom you will always feel a kinship and closeness. When people hear this recording they will understand more clearly the roots of our original songs and perhaps have a bit more insight into where they really came from."

"I think what we realized was that we would do songs that either had a personal connection to us or a professional connection to us,"

"I think we've always prided ourselves and perceived ourselves as songwriters, so it wasn't an album that we felt we had to do, ... But we knew that some day we'll do an album like that, and it will be fun. That's what it was really about. It was just the right time to do it."

"It keeps us loose. You go out here and everybody's intense and the expectations are so big, it just relaxes us a little bit. It helps take our minds off of things a little bit."

"The idea was to take these great songs, take them out of their production style and their dated recording style, and show them for the songs that they are--as if you had just played them on an acoustic guitar. It's all about timeless songwriting, really."

"The purpose of this communication is a heads-up,"

"[Which is why it's spectacularly appropriate that The Funk Brothers - Motown's original house band - are opening up for Hall & Oates.] It's a great bill, ... We're carrying on their tradition. So we'll see when we get into Montreal if we're going to play a few songs together."

"In the '80s Milli Vanilli was ruined by lip-synching, ... but now it's looked upon as enhancing people's careers. Today the weirder and creepier your life is, the more successful you are. There no longer seems to be any substance [to performers and bands] today. Everybody just wants to be famous. We come from a more traditional old school. We're proud that we sing and play live. We grew up paying our dues, learning from our masters."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I have a great family, I live an amazing life."

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

"We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves."

"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."

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