Jack White Quotes

The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.

Jack White The White Stripes

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• It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Always

• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Relationship
  • Technology

• The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Performance

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

• Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Down

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Work
  • Education
  • Respect

• The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Dead

• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Find
  • Guitar
  • Numbers

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Record
  • Bully
  • Historically

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Guitar

• You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Women
  • Technology

• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Learn
  • Guitar
  • Guilty

• Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • High
  • Nature
  • Society

• We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • World
  • Energy
  • Technology

• We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Family
  • Experience

• I already am, I always was and I still have time to be

  

  Anis Mojgani
  • Stills

• The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Technology
  • Guitar
  • Record