Dan Auerbach Quotes
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 going to be kids in bands.
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 grooves they create.
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 obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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 the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
It's hard to be spontaneous when you have 40 people in your crew, and you're playing to 16,000 people every night, and there's giant lighting rigs, it's hard to change direction on a dime.
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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 me.
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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 its own.
