309 Quotes by Jack White

The Bottom Line: If people don’t LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

A songwriter’s heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won’t sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

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

You can’t steal an artist’s songs and also tell him he can’t license that music to a commercial.

If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you’d see how much I’m really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn’t have bothered me.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: ‘I’ll do this for now, but I’m really a drummer.’ That’s what I’ll put on my passport application.

That’s what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, ‘Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out’ – or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.