The White Stripes Quotes
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I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.
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A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.
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I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.
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Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.
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Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
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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 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 never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.
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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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It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.
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In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.
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If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.
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There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.
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It's hard listening to myself.
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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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I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.
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The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.
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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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Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
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It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
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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'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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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.
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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.