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“It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.”

A message he left on his website to his fans, dated September 18th, 2003
2003

“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!”

Jack White

It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway. On how they are able to "sell what is really an art concept" to a mass audience Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007). 2007

“I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.”

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Perry, Andrew (13 November 2004). "What's eating Jack?" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1347715,00.html, The Observer. (accessed October 22, 2014) 2010

“Jack is the showman—the brassy frontman and the snake-oil trader.”

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“Frank Sinatra was dignified. We don't have a Frank Sinatra, or a Patti Page nowadays. What do we have? Ashlee Simpson instead of Patti Page! I mean, look at those people - like Paris Hilton! Who are all these skanks, man? Little girls are looking up to these girls, and it's so gross. Those girls have no dignity at all, and parents are letting their kids dress up like those skanks. But what else have they got? What are the other choices? Somebody had the nerve to ask me if I wanted to play guitar on Lindsay Lohan's album! She's another one of those 16-year-old actresses, and she's making an album! Like, 'NO!”

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Ha ha ha! On why dignity and celebrity don't go hand in hand Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007). 2007

“I would love to be Jack White — or maybe I want the people who like Jack White to also like me. But I”m the guy who writes beautiful music at 85 beat per minute.”

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John Mayer
Eells, Josh (June 21, 2012). "John Mayers Regrets." Rolling Stone. 1159:48-53
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Jack White Quotes about thinking

“Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.”

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On why they recorded Elephant in two weeks Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007). 2010

“I saw a review of our new album, and it said, "Every single component of the White Stripes is a gigantic lie." What does that mean? Have I sat down and said I was born in Mississippi? No. Did I say I grew up on a plantation and learned how to play guitar from a blind man? I never said anything like that. It's funny that people think me and Meg sit up late at night, in front of a gas lamp, and come up with these intricate lies to trick people.”

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From the article White on White from Rolling Stone Magazine
On 'gimmicks

“I'm not saying I came up with anything [laughs]. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, "Look at all these gimmicks."”

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Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.
From the article White on White from Rolling Stone Magazine
In response to a question about his relationship with Meg being false
On 'gimmicks

“It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here…playing.”

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On having a calling to stand on stage and perform to people—as a priest or as a musician Marc Maron (June 8, 2012). " Jack White http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_289_-_jack_white". WTF With Marc Maron. Season 2. Episode 289. 21:48 minutes in. 2010

“It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.”

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Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1349947,00.html ObserverGuarduan.co.uk (accessed June 6, 2006) On why 2004 was, up to that point, the best year of his life 2004

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“I wasn’t prepared. He had a big Mercedes, with a custom sound system, and he drove like hell through Nashville traffic, with Slim Harpo at defcon 1 volume.”

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Ry Cooder, music producer Wilkinson, Alec (March 13, 2017), "JACK WHITE’S INFINITE IMAGINATION" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/jack-whites-infinite-imagination. The New Yorker. Retrieved March 6, 2017. About

“I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.”

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From the article A Mysterious Case of the White Stripes from Rolling Stone Magazine.
2010

“I tend to be that guy, you know? When me and four friends walk into a restaurant and nobody else talks to the host, I say, “Yeah, it’s a table for five.” I don’t want to be that guy; I wish someone else would say something. But it always ends up being me, and I hate what comes with that. There’s a lot of baggage—ego and narcissism—that comes with leadership. It’s difficult to cope with at times.”

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On being the drummer (not the frontman) of the band w:Dead Weather "This is not a Spinal Tap" http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_10157. GQ magazine. (accessed 2009-07-15) 2010

“I see him becoming one of the greatest record producers there is.”

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Loretta Lynn, after working with White on her album Van Lear Rose
Male, Andrew (July 2007). "The Mojo Interview", MOJO. (164):48
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“You can't do better than that.”

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On being hugged by Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's visit to Detroit in 1987 Dolon, John (July 2007), "The White Stripes: New Jack City" http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2705 Blender Volume unknown: pp. 109 2010

“At times, we [the White Stripes] almost ignore our own music. If we have the stage, we've gotta play Son House's music, because there's nobody to keep it alive. We don't wanna be known as the band that's conducting music instruction class. But that's all everyone talks about - why MTV's not good, why radio's not good. And the answer is really because whatever you want to call it - blues, country, folk - isn't around any more. That's why everyone's so mad, and I'm tired of it being my job to bring it back.”

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On why he tends to look to the past Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007). 2010

“I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much … unless you're family.”

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Rolling Stone video interview of The Dead Weather (beginning at 1:50) "The Dead Weather Muse on the Future of Music, Supergroup War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llw9S1hMZ4s, Rolling Stone, April 17, 2010. Retrieved on January 5, 2015. 2010

“No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.”

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On not being a fan of Motown
Scaggs, Austin (May 1, 2003), "Jack White". Rolling Stone.
2003

“Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.”

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AT The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California after some balloons bearing a radio station's logo floated on stage. Chonin, Neva (2005). "White Stripes huge but not bloated" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/15/DDGTAE7B261.DTL&type=music SFGate.com (accessed June 19, 2007) 2010