Vinyl is the real deal. Ive always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you dont really own the album. And its not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive. – Jack White
I dabbled in things like Howlin Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something Id been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. – Jack White
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, its just too bright. Dont know why, its not warm. – Jack White
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really arent in search of the truth. Theyre in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the medias the kind of a thing where the truth doesnt win, because its no fun. The truths no fun. – Jack White
When you put something out there into the world, theres all these words you dont want to hear, that you hope people dont say. I dont like anything that starts with re – like retro, reinvent, recreate – I hate that. Its always like living in the past – copying, emulating. – Jack White
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: Ill do this for now, but Im really a drummer. Thats what Ill put on my passport application. – Jack White
Thats 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. – Jack White
I keep guitars that are, you know, the necks a little bit bent and its a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle. – Jack White
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends grandparents. – Jack White
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, Yeah, I know what you mean, and stare at their mobiles. – Jack White
I think you cant really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether its New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You cant escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. – Jack White
Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question. – Jack White
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. – Jack White
