#w

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

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. ↗

— Jack White

#consider #down #hip-hop #i #instruments

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose. ↗

— Jack White

#care #come #evil #first #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

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question. ↗

— Jack White

#answered #assumes #because #everybody #get

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

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single. ↗

— Meg White

#even #first #gonna #last #minute

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bands #get #getting #i

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

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange. ↗

— Jack White

#certainly #commercial #i #seems #song