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Dan Auerbach Biography

Daniel Quine "Dan" Auerbach (born May 14, 1979) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the band, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced eight studio albums with his bandmate Patrick Carney. In 2009, Auerbach released a solo album entitled Keep It Hid. He released another solo album in 2017, entitled Waiting on a Song. In addition to winning several Grammy Awards as a member of the Black Keys, Auerbach received the 2013 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for co-producing his band's 2011 album, El Camino, and for producing records by Dr. John (Locked Down) and Hacienda.

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It's hard to be spontaneous when you have 40 people in your crew, and you're playing to 16,000 people every night, and there's giant lighting rigs, it's hard to change direction on a dime.

Dime, Giants, Hard, Night, People

A lot of musicians are super - insecure and they take forever and they obsess over the minutia and it's really stifling. It's not that the band The Black Keys is that confident, it's that we're not striving for perfection. We are just trying to have fun. None of the music that we like is perfect. It's good. And real. We just want to make real records, flaws and all.

Band, Fun, Insecure, Make, Real, Super

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

Albums, Names, Song, Songs, Tend

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.

American, Hop, Mean, Past, Think, Thinking

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.

Dad, Kids, Like, Push, Voice, Young

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

Akron, Band, Bands, Humor, Sense Of Humor, Take

That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.

Growing Up, Music, Nothing, Song, Thing, Writing

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

Feels, Made, Personal, Place, Smaller, Things

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.

Character, Guitar, Guitars, Mostly, Song, Style

I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.

Differently, Job, Jobs, Know, Mean, Writing

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

Know, Knows, Mind, Writing

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.

Feels, Life, Light, Play, Thinking, Visual

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.

Brother, Dog, Guitar, Hound, Played, Raw

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

Definitely, Guitar, Listen, Player, Singer, Song

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.

Folk, Guitar, Harmonica, Play, Song

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.

Connection, Heard, Hip Hop, Listening, Play, Simple

I'm really not worried about what fans think.

Fans, Think, Thinking, Worried

Songs aren't owned by anyone.

Owned, Song, Songs

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

Acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Writing

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

Living, Make, Maybe Someday, Records, Someday

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