Jack White Quotes
Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!
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In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
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I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
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I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
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I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people's ears to hear. Over the years, I've just become more tolerant of that.
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Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.
