Dan Auerbach Quotes

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'

With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek.

If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it has a lot of stories behind it.

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Glizzy Gang is a real movement. They had movements back when I was younger, in the '90s, but you don't really have a major movement in the 2000s.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

I know why Migos are popular - they're good, and they make great videos, and they're funny.

I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.

Travis Scott is definitely a big inspiration. Lil Wayne was a big one. Lil Wayne, 50 Cent. Those were my two, like, big ones growing up. Then I got into Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa phase.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

A 'Roc-A-Fella purist' is me.

Kanye on the track and LeBron. That's fire.