Jack White famous quotes

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
-- Jack White

#Ideas #Done #Shakes

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.
-- Jack White

#Powerful #Artist #Kind

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.
-- Jack White

#Creativity #Color #World

If you're doing something that people want, they'll find you.
-- Jack White

#People #Want

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
-- Jack White

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.
-- Jack White

#Heart #Past #Desire

Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.
-- Jack White

#Passion #Artist #Blow

You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.
-- Jack White

#Lying #Mean #Years

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.
-- Jack White

#Trust No One

I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
-- Jack White

#Art #Long #Relax

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
-- Jack White

#Pursuit Of Happiness #Pursuit

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.
-- Jack White

#Song #Taken #Two

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.
-- Jack White

#Jealousy #Art #Hurt

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.
-- Jack White

#Thinking #Driving #Restriction

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.
-- Jack White

#Music #Zeppelins

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
-- Jack White

#People #Feel Good #Pushing

I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. 'This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.'
-- Jack White

#Girlfriend #Wife #Female

If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.
-- Jack White

#Song #Writing #People

Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.
-- Jack White

#Hipster #Men #Thinking

What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.
-- Jack White

#Real #Thinking #Fake

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 #Struggle #Guitar

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.
-- Jack White

#Artist #Unique #Lucky

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.
-- Jack White

#Years #Car #Three

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.
-- Jack White

#Dream #Mean #Thinking

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.
-- Jack White

#Birthday #Beautiful #Mean

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs
-- Jack White

#Jobs #Records #Quitting

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
-- Jack White

#Song #Artist #Stealing

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
-- Jack White

#Moving #Wind #Magic

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
-- Jack White

#Taken #Majority #Phrases

Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.
-- Jack White

#Careers #Body #Fiber

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
-- Jack White

#Cousin #Attitude #Interesting

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.
-- Jack White

#White #Missing #Challenges

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.
-- Jack White

#Mean #Play #People

We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.
-- Jack White

#Passion #Light #Numbers