Jack White Quotes

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

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• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

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• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
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• I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

  

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• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

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• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

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• Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

  

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• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

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• It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

  

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• I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

  

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• Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

  

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• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

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• I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

  

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• I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

  

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• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  

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• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

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• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

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• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  

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• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

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• There is Rio in 2016, but it won't be the same as going to London and hearing 24,000 people - nearly all British - cheering, stamping their feet, and screaming your name.

  

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• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

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• The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.

  

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• So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

  

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• It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Guitar
  • Songwriter