#d

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph. ↗

— Jack White

#blues #elected #fact #i #inherent

The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't. ↗

— Jack White

#book #decide #elitist #full #guinness

The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room. ↗

— Jack White

#i #ideally #like #make #new

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player. ↗

— Jack White

#carries #first #launch #man #outer

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me. ↗

— Jack White

#different #different way #family #grade #grade school

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

#ago #black #black music #blues #come

I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world. ↗

— Kelli White

#believe #betrayed #certain #could #different

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew. ↗

— Kelli White

#exactly #fully #going #i #i think

Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. ↗

— Meg White

#like #me #never #people #recognizing

I was exposed to jazz early on. ↗

— Mark White

#exposed #i #jazz