auerbach Quotes

“Just do what you do best.”

“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.”

“My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.”

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

“Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.”

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.”

“To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.”