Dan Auerbach Quotes

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• I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the…
• A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on…
• Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
• Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
• I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
• I'm really not worried about what fans think.
• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to…
• The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
• The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always…
• Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in…
• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably…
• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what…
• I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had…
• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that.…
• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has…

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