Jack White Quotes
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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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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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The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.
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Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
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Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.
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We learn to beat fear by doing.
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Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.
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Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
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Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania – that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.
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We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it, and I don't have any need to join into that ever again. It's too counterproductive to writing music and performing to the best of your abilities. It's okay when you're 20 years old - you're getting out there and you're learning - but not when you're 30 years old.
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It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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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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The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.
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I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.
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Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.
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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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I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.
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The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.
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People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.
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Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.
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The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.
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Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.