Jack White Quotes
You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
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No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.
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I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'
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There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.
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That really was a lot of the appeal of 'Rumours.' The music was wonderful, but the music was also authentic because it was two couples breaking up and writing dialogue to each other. It was also appealing because we were rising to the occasion to follow our destiny.
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When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.
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I find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.
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SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they're supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, 'Cloud Nine.'
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I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.
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If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
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If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
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In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms?...
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Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.
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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
