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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
- Jack White
#Hate
#Hope
#Past
#Words
#World
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
- Jack White
#Coming
#Drummer
#Home
#Me
#White
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
- Jack White
#Black
#Blues
#Great
#Music
#Way
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
- Jack White
#Commercial
#Seems
#Song
#Strange
#Want
That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
- Jack White
#Bad
#Best
#Computers
#Need
#People
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
- Jack White
#Create
#Me
#Need
#Sometimes
#Things
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.
- Jack White
#Book
#Nothing
#Organization
#People
#Who
I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.
- Jack White
#Me
#Real
#Shirt
#Stage
#Time
I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.
- Jack White
#More
#Path
#People
#Talk
#Want
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
- Jack White
#Love
#Never
#Someone
#Song
#Want
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
- Jack White
#Circle
#Haircut
#Me
#Parents
#School
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
- Jack White
#Being
#Enjoy
#Guilt
#Nice
#Things Happen
I won't join another band again.
- Jack White
#Again
#Another
#Band
#Join
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
- Jack White
#Honesty
#Life
#Mind
#Music
#Soul
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
- Jack White
#God
#Me
#Music
#Room
#Trying
I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
- Jack White
#Easy
#I Can
#Myself
#Struggle
#Way
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
- Jack White
#Age
#Me
#Mother
#Parents
#School
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
- Jack White
#Alive
#Me
#Past
#Pet
#Romantic
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
- Jack White
#Broken
#Down
#Hip-Hop
#Music
#Rhythm
#Storytelling
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
- Jack White
#Attitude
#Battle
#Moment
#Struggle
#Work
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