The White Stripes Quotes
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The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
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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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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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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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Every album I've done pretty much has been not in a pleasant, quote-unquote, environment - it's freezing cold, or it was somebody's house with not-that-great equipment. It's always something that spurs on to get the job 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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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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Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.
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We learn to beat fear by doing.
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I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
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Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.
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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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Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.
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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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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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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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I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.
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The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.
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Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
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It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.
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Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.
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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.