Jack White Quotes
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Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
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Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed with your skills they can't resist hauling your art home. These three factors are what dictate most art sales.
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Happiness is more important than money any day.
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If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
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Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.
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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
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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.
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Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.
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Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?
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I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.
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I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
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I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs.
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I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.
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You need a little resistance-something to fight against.
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Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.
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A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.
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Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.
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The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.
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Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.
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I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?