#years

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. ↗

— E. B. White

#become #before #eighteen #father #teen years

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 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 was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bits #blew #circle #crowd

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

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously. ↗

— Meg White

#been #continuously #going #last #lot

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. ↗

— Patrick White

#countryside #english #english school #explore #four

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years. ↗

— Ron White

#demons #had #i #life #my life

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out. ↗

— Ron White

#because #done #first #i #jokes

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range. ↗

— Ron White

#back #dad #driving #houston #i