Jack White Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Jack White

  Art, Successful, Effort

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• I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.

  Jack White

  Weed, Thinking, Play

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

  Jack White

  Fighting, Knives, Dying

  Song: Love Interruption, Album: Blunderbuss, 2012

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• My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.

  Jack White

  Mother, Children, Special

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Jack White

  Art, Moving, People

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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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• I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

  Jack White

  Spiritual, Children, Buddhism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Needs, Sometimes

  “Jack White: 'I don't like to take the easy way out, on anything I do'” by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

  Jack White

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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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

  Art, Emotional, Impact

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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.

  Jack White

  Honesty, Son, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

  Jack White

  People, Lines, Able

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• People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

  Jack White

  People, Downtown, Amenities

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• Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

  Jack White

  Artist, Eagles, Able

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• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

  Jack White

  Trying

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

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• Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.

  Jack White

  Moving, Passion, Sharks

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• Well you're in your little room
  and you're working on something good
  but if it's really good
  you're gonna need a bigger room
  and when you're in the bigger room
  you might not know what to do
  you might have to think of
  how you got started sitting in your little room

  Jack White

  Thinking, Design, Needs

  "Little Room". Song by The White Stripes, 2001.

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• I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

  Jack White

  Art, Moving, Awards

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• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Years, Southern

  "The Flipside With Jack White: Finding Music In The Art Of Auctioneering". Interview with Bob Boilen, www.npr.org. February 28, 2011.

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• The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

  Jack White

  Rocks, Years, Band

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• Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

  Jack White

  White, Soul, Records

  "Jack White: Without the Stripes, There'd Be No Black Keys". Interview with James Montgomery, www.rollingstone.com. May 30, 2014.

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• All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.

  Jack White

  Self, Waiting, Collaboration

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• Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

  Jack White

  Art, Purchasing, Collectors

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

  Jack White

  Artist, Paint, Produce

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• The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

  Jack White

  Art, Important, Produce

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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