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. (Dan Auerbach)

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

Dan Auerbach

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.

Dan Auerbach

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

Dan Auerbach

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.

Dan Auerbach

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

Dan Auerbach

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

Dan Auerbach

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 the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

Dan Auerbach

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.

Dan Auerbach

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Dan Auerbach

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums. (Dan Auerbach)

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

Dan Auerbach

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

Dan Auerbach

I'm really not worried about what fans think.

Dan Auerbach

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 to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

Dan Auerbach

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

Dan Auerbach

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

Dan Auerbach

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 Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Dan Auerbach

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.

Dan Auerbach

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.

Dan Auerbach

Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped? (Dan Auerbach)

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 don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

Dan Auerbach

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

Dan Auerbach

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

Dan Auerbach

It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.

Dan Auerbach