The White Stripes Quotes
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There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.
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I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.
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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 hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener, and I want it to be so that kids want to create for themselves a story or a context of the words.
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It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.
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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 have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.
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A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.
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If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.
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The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.
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Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.
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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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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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There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.
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Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
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It's hard listening to myself.
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I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.
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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 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 get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
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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 most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today.
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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 think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.