Dan Auerbach quote: "Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record."

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

You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
DAN AUERBACH

I'm really not worried about what fans think.
DAN AUERBACH

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, whic...
DAN AUERBACH

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

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always goin...
DAN AUERBACH

I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my da...
DAN AUERBACH

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

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

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to ...
DAN AUERBACH

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record ...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really op...
DAN AUERBACH

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music loude...
DAN AUERBACH

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and ...
DAN AUERBACH

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not marrie...
DAN AUERBACH

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's de...
DAN AUERBACH

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

When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in son...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the sin...
DAN AUERBACH

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the ...
DAN AUERBACH

It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt...
DAN AUERBACH

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cl...
DAN AUERBACH

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

Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't g...
DAN AUERBACH

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

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is...
DAN AUERBACH

People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
DAN AUERBACH

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don&#...
DAN AUERBACH

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
DAN AUERBACH

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
-AUERBACH

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
RED AUERBACH

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
RED AUERBACH

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
RED AUERBACH

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
RED AUERBACH

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while fo...
RED AUERBACH

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while f...
RED AUERBACH

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
RED AUERBACH

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a ...
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a ...
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
FRANK AUERBACH

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a ...
FRANK AUERBACH

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation...
FRANK AUERBACH

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
FRANK AUERBACH

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that...
FRANK AUERBACH

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings abou...
FRANK AUERBACH

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
FRANK AUERBACH

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living t...
FRANK AUERBACH

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a de...
FRANK AUERBACH

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finishe...
FRANK AUERBACH

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young m...
ERICH AUERBACH

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
RED AUERBACH

Phil is obviously a good coach. You don't win that many games without being a damn good coach, ... R...
RED AUERBACH

That's something I don't want to get into. I'm here. That's what counts.
RED AUERBACH

Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, bu...
RED AUERBACH

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
RED AUERBACH

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
RED AUERBACH

Just do what you do best.
RED AUERBACH

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of livi...
FRANK AUERBACH

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH

Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self...
EMILY AUERBACH

Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of see...
EMILY AUERBACH

We have too much of a shell game going on at ICANN today.
KARL AUERBACH

The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the '60s during which people thought the world wou...
KARL AUERBACH

This budget has grave implications for scientific research to combat HIV and AIDS. Bluntly put, this...
JUDY AUERBACH

The administration and Congress made a decision to cut spending and increase tax relief for wealthy ...
JUDY AUERBACH

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the techniqu...
ERICH AUERBACH

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a ...
FRANK AUERBACH

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
DAN QUAYLE

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put you...
DAN GABLE

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You ...
DAN MARINO

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
DAN QUAYLE

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so...
DAN RATHER

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has chang...
DAN RATHER

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We ar...
DAN QUAYLE

We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
DAN GABLE

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ...
DAN PINK

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I&...
DAN WHELDON

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island'...
DAN SHECHTMAN

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be ...
DAN QUAYLE

Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
DAN KAMINSKY

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by t...
DAN JENKINS

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing m...
DAN JENKINS

Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest...
DAN JENKINS

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
DAN PHILLIPS

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star,...
DAN JENKINS

I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
DAN QUINN

I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT

I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is a...
DAN HILL

When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm ...
DAN HILL

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do...
DAN HILL

When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen...
DAN HILL

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of ...
DAN HILL

The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best w...
DAN HILL

My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
DAN HILL

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ...
DAN HILL

I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy...
DAN HILL

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra...
DAN HILL

With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want hi...
DAN HILL

I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab...
DAN HILL

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our we...
DAN HILL

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan...
DAN HILL

When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop s...
DAN HILL

Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i...
DAN HILL

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
DAN HILL

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a hou...
DAN HILL

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilit...
DAN HILL

At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i...
DAN HILL

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by...
DAN HILL

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
DAN HILL

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
DAN HICKS

I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
DAN HICKS

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t...
DAN HICKS

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
DAN HICKS

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t...
DAN HICKS

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to ...
DAN HICKS

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labe...
DAN HICKS

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'...
DAN HICKS

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stag...
DAN HICKS

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the wor...
DAN HICKS

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time war...
DAN HICKS

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ...
DAN HAWKINS

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v...
DAN HAWKINS

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
DAN HAWKINS

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&...
DAN HAWKINS

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ...
DAN HAWKINS

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la...
DAN HAWKINS

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ...
DAN HAWKINS

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at ...
DAN HAWKINS

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the expos...
DAN HAWKINS

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypass...
DAN HAWKINS

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
DAN HAWKINS

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really ...
DAN HAWKINS

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
DAN HAWKINS

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
DAN HAWKINS

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don...
DAN HAWKINS

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And vie...
DAN HARMON

Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels ...
DAN HARMON

My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franch...
DAN HARMON

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of...
DAN HARMON

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
DAN HARMON

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people...
DAN HARMON

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're i...
DAN HARMON

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our lo...
DAN HARMON

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist ...
DAN HARMON

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi ...
DAN HARMON

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w...
DAN HARMON

Maybe I am just a jerk.
DAN HARMON

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
DAN HARMON

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I'v...
DAN HARMON

Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decisio...
DAN HARMON

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ...
DAN HARMON

There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
DAN HARMON

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
DAN HARMON

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critic...
DAN HARMON

I really like performing for people.
DAN HARMON

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to...
DAN GLICKMAN

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ...
DAN GLICKMAN

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and ...
DAN GLICKMAN

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
DAN GLICKMAN

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our i...
DAN GLICKMAN

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting so...
DAN GLICKMAN

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultiv...
DAN GLICKMAN

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
DAN GLICKMAN

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect int...
DAN GLICKMAN

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN

Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Ever...
DAN GILROY

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films wh...
DAN GILROY

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world ...
DAN GILROY

'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses n...
DAN GILROY

I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of...
DAN GILROY

I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the moun...
DAN GILROY

When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using ...
DAN GILROY

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the f...
DAN GILROY

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole...
DAN GILROY

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen,...
DAN GILROY

I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael M...
DAN GILROY

I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up o...
DAN GILROY

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ...
DAN GILROY

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
DAN GILROY

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work...
DAN GILROY

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But...
DAN GILROY

There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'...
DAN GILROY

The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
DAN GILROY

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

Dan Auerbach

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