Jack White
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first ti... ROBERT PALMER When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ... NATHANIEL RATELIFF B. B. KING I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown. L'WREN SCOTT Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Coo... L.A. REID I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to ... DAN AUERBACH CHARLIE PUTH ALISON MOYET TOM PETTY My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and t... RYAN ADAMS When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record co... DANIEL JOHNS TODD RUNDGREN JIMMY PAGE DR. DRE It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the ... RICKY WILLIAMS It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when th... ASHLEY TISDALE West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd nev... SHANE MCANALLY One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White... REID SCOTT I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home... SONJA SOHN SHANIA TWAIN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it wa... IMELDA MAY WAVY GRAVY CHARLIE PUTH I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introd... KYP MALONE I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby... HOZIER I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I... ADAM PALLY I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the musi... RAEKWON It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON ADAM DRIVER When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE JESSE MCCARTNEY SAM SMITH 'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, midd... NOEL CLARKE JIMMY PAGE Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so d... CASSANDRA GIOVANNI A couple of years ago, right before I made 'Down to You,' there was a moment when I question... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ... JACK BRUCE I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been... DARYL HALL When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who... KYP MALONE That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best... RANDY HOUSER BURNING SPEAR I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and the... SEAN ASTIN To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that ... BUTCH TRUCKS I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looki... ATTICUS SHAFFER DOROTHY HAMILL MACAULAY CULKIN JIMMY PAGE 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spi... YELAWOLF HUNTER HAYES I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER DR. DRE There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was s... IMOGEN HEAP I guess I would use my son's word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House. ALBERTO GONZALES JAMILA WOODS AMY WINEHOUSE In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't re... KATE MORTON Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes o... KOKO TAYLOR AYRTON SENNA All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be... LIL' KIM JACK WHITE I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The ... JOSH YOUNG So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'... CHRIS CARTER PAUL WALKER There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd... ALAN THICKE MELISSA ETHERIDGE CONOR OBERST I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peace... CHRIS ISAAK JOHN MELLENCAMP The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every ... KATHARINE CORNELL Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'... DAMIAN MARLEY When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve thi... ASHTON EATON I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got... MICHAEL OWEN There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar... ANDY SUMMERS When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him whil... MICHELLE MAGORIAN That was like my 80th shot. I was just trying to get it in. I tried everything else and finally got ... ANGIE KUHN MICHELLE OBAMA B. B. KING JOHN MELLENCAMP JACK WHITE CHARLIE PUTH I noticed that the sign on my corner was missing, but I just assumed it blew away in the hurricane. EARL BERNHARDT I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonha... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro... HOZIER I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe ... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS SETH ROGEN CIARA CHARLIE ROWE I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn&... VICTOR ORTIZ From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u... KATHLEEN BATTLE TAYLOR SWIFT DAVE BRAT ZAC EFRON SYLVIA PLATH As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English p... HOWARD JACOBSON All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when... MIKE POSNER But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
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WAYNE WHITE I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there does... WAYNE WHITE If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunn... WAYNE WHITE Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasi... WAYNE WHITE But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude o... WAYNE WHITE I feel for the players. VANNA WHITE So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the televis... VANNA WHITE There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we&... VANNA WHITE I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning. VANNA WHITE I do everything that everybody else does. VANNA WHITE I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek. VANNA WHITE I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up. VANNA WHITE I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies... VANNA WHITE It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. VANNA WHITE I'm really just a normal person. VANNA WHITE SHAUN WHITE Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence ... PATRICK WHITE In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and Germ... PATRICK WHITE I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining ta... PATRICK WHITE Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the... PATRICK WHITE My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriag... PATRICK WHITE I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the ... PATRICK WHITE Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose m... PATRICK WHITE I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher... PATRICK WHITE When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whe... PATRICK WHITE In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent f... PATRICK WHITE I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by ... PATRICK WHITE BETTY WHITE E.B. 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ALAN WHITE Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. HALE WHITE There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art ... HALE WHITE When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no dange... HALE WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE EDMUND WHITE RON WHITE RON WHITE I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. PATRICK WHITE It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the... GILBERT WHITE EDMUND WHITE T.H. WHITE T.H. WHITE I think things for us are really coming together at this point. Our distance events are getting much... AARON WHITE We're going to win -- I promise you. AARON WHITE You actually are in alcohol withdrawal during a hangover. AARON WHITE It's amazing how much people really do want to conform. AARON WHITE Our culture tells us that alcohol and sex go together, yet it is illegal to use alcohol to facilitat... AARON WHITE Swedish meatballs were the favorite, and the 'Happy Birthday, Poppy' cake with cream cheese frosting... ABBY WHITE Most viewers probably have no idea what the difference is between the two awards. It takes a very di... ABBY WHITE The theatrical community -- music and dance -- adds a unique touch to New York City. There are more ... ABBY WHITE People brought Poppy gifts. Bones and biscuits and toys. Everybody had a blast, including the dogs w... ABBY WHITE SHAUN WHITE The choices we make today have important implications. ADAM WHITE Under the current plan, electricity prices are going to rise by $3 billion a year and an average of ... ADAM WHITE If we're going to talk electricity policy, we have to talk about economic and industrial policy too. ADAM WHITE It's a bit of a jump into the unknown. We don't really know what these will sell, but digital techno... ADAM WHITE Might I suggest that you keep the following handy for cut and paste jobs later in the series? ...is ... ADAM WHITE It's the first time we've been in a grand final so to win it is fantastic, ADAM WHITE To win the best on ground in a winning grand final is absolutely unbelievable. ADAM WHITE This one will be pretty special, ADAM WHITE It was a tough game all the way through but from the start we knew it was going to be tough, ADAM WHITE SOMERS WHITE We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity whic... LYNN WHITE REGGIE WHITE THEODORE WHITE THEODORE WHITE EDMUND WHITE THEODORE WHITE T.H. WHITE RON WHITE E.B. WHITE
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music... 
He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work... 
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more in... 
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Wat... 
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ... 
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin... 
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ... 
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emoti... 
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I... 
When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it complet... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I dou... 
I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength... 
I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave... 
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind... 
In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but the... 
I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I... 
I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way. 
I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind. 
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and... 
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been ... 
I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li... 
I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... 
I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and mov... 
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it st... 
Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex... 
I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure m... 
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he... 
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'... 
Honestly, I feel like everything in life happens for a reason, and my son has been the greatest gift... 
I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... 
I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anyt... 
I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything.... 
A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of th... 
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn... 
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... 
We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s... 
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha... 
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I wo... 
I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part. 
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant.... 
Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skat... 
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ... 
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ... 
This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent. 
At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper sh... 
Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets. 
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off. 
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ... 
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's ag... 
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe... 
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to... 
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, i... 
We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools o... 
It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot affo... 
Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies. 
I have a lot of respect for tough coaches. 
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ... 
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this pla... 
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' '... 