Dan Auerbach Quotes

I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

I did splash out on a 1964 Fender Jaguar guitar in L.A.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

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

There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.