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I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.
Jack White
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Jack White
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 9
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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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Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
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I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.
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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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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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Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
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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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