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It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

Jack White

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Jack White
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 9
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.
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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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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.
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It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.
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A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs
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I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. 'This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.'
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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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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The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.
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We learn to beat fear by doing.
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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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