Dan Auerbach Quotes

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

I view making records as a journey.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.

The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.