A biography for John Oateshasn’t been written yet.
“To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.”
“I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.”
“I've been asked to do various types of cruises.”
“Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.”
“I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'”
“If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.”
“I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.”
“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 was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.”