Jack White Quotes

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.

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.