309 Quotes by Jack White

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

I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don’t move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

If you’re asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a “break-up song,” I can’t imagine doing that to people I love.

Inspiration and work ethic – they ride right next to each other.

There aren’t that many things left that haven’t already been done, especially with music. I’m interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

I think I’ve been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens – or the music press, whatever you want to call it.

I dislike the word ‘emerging artist.’ Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I’ll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

If you’re doing something that people want, they’ll find you.