Jack White Quotes
In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.
Quotes to Explore
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I love writing songs.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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It’s good to hear those songs performed so well - congrats to the band.
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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.
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In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.
