Dan Auerbach Quotes
Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I think I need security.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.
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Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
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I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle of the 70's. And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I'm talking about from that point on are the records that I'm totally involved in.
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
