White Stripes Quotes

• 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.

  Jack White

  White, Missing, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Jack White

  Home, White, Stripes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

  Jack White

  Kids, Years, Play

  "Jack White: 'I knew we'd get into these places and stir things up'". Interview with Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• I asked the Zebra,
  are you black with white stripes?
  Or white with black stripes?
  And the zebra asked me,
  Are you good with bad habits?
  Or are you bad with good habits?

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

  George Washington

  Mother, Country, Stars

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• I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

  Ann Wilson

  White, Stripes, Right Now

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• I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Zebras, White, Black

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1316, Simon and Schuster

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• Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

  Jack White

  Men, Microphones

  "Song: 'The White Stripes-Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground' ('White Blood Cells')". 2001.

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• Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

  Jack White

  Music, Zeppelins, Don't Trust

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• I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

  Matt Tong

  White, Stripes, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  White, Stripes, Style

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• I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

  Rex Smith

  Beach, Hair, Rocks

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 20, 1981.

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• We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.

  Rex Smith

  Crazy, Real, Fighting

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.

  Wayne McGregor

  White, Impact, Seductive

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• I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.

  Jack White

  White, Stripes, Band

  "What's Eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2004.

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• I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

  Charlie Hunter

  White, Stripes, Records

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