#thing

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. ↗

— Jack White

#anything #copying #hate #hear #hope

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

#american tradition #feels #head #hundreds #i

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

#any #base #buddhism #child #completely

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. ↗

— Jack White

#allowed #being #catholic #catholic guilt #enjoy

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical. ↗

— Jack White

#came #catholic #catholic guilt #come #egotistical

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good. ↗

— Meg White

#good #good opportunity #idols #kinds #meet

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

#certain #certain things #create #i #i think

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#create #even #people #realize #soothing

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. ↗