The White Stripes Quotes
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I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.
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I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
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I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.
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I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.
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I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.
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Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.
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I think the most important thing is to start with something that fits perfectly. Don't worry about having it in five colors.
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It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
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I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.
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It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.
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The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.
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It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.
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Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.
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I don't like making my job easier. How are you accomplishing anything if there's no struggle? If I have to create a struggle that doesn't exist, I'll do that. Time and money constraints are a great way to do it.
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The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today.
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It's hard listening to myself.
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I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school.' I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom, and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me.
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As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
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Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.
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I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.
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If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.
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Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?
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I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.
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The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.