'John Oates' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Oates, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The 9th Annual TV Land Awards

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen John Denver Rocky Mountain High: An Earth Day Concert

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen You Again

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Live from Daryl's House: A New Year's Eve Special

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Christmas Celebration at the Grove

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hall & Oates: Our Kind of Soul

  2005, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Songwriters Hall of Fame

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Inductee
• Play in Full Screen Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve 2004

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hall & Oates: RockWalk Induction

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Live by Request: Hall & Oates

  2003, role: actor , character name: Performer
• Play in Full Screen The 31st Annual American Music Awards

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen I Love the '80s Strikes Back

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Nobel Peace Prize Concert

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen We Are the World: A 10th Anniversary Tribute

  1995, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Evolution's End?

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Heavy Petting

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 16th Annual American Music Awards

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Hall & Oates: Live at the Apollo

  1987, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Hall & Oates: Live at the Apollo

  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid

  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 1985

  1985, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen Live Aid

  1985, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen We Are the World

  1985, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 12th Annual American Music Awards

  1985, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen The 11th Annual American Music Awards

  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself- Performer
• Play in Full Screen DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues

  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 10th Annual American Music Awards

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hall & Oats in Concert

  1982, role: actor

Oates, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself

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."

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

"It's the music that brings us together."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"We should have an easier name to pronounce."

"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."

John Oates