Perhaps one of the most admired guitarists of the first 21st century, Jack port Light helped restore the reputation of punk-blues because the frontman from the Light Stripes. On the other hand, he widened his reach by taking part in a variety of other tasks, like the Raconteurs, the Frosty Hill soundtrack, Loretta Lynn’s return vehicle Truck Lear Rose, the Deceased Weather, along with a single profession. Although White’s nose tone of voice and loose, fiery electric guitar delivery had been mainstays from the Light Stripes’ early function, the group branched out as its popularity grew, building upon an originally minimalist audio with components of metallic, backwoods nation, pop, and early rock and roll & roll. White colored followed an identical advancement in his personal profession, and by enough time the White colored Stripes celebrated the tenth wedding anniversary of the debut recording, the frontman got already released two pop-oriented information using the Raconteurs, starred in a number of movies, collaborated with Electric powered Six, duetted with Alicia Secrets, and produced information for several performers. John Anthony Gillis was created in Detroit on July 9, 1975. The youngest of ten siblings, he started playing drums young and took motivation through the world-weary blues of Boy Home and Blind Willie McTell. A desire for guitar adopted in his teenage years. After releasing his personal upholstery business in Detroit, White colored started to infiltrate the city’s music picture because the drummer for Goober & the Peas, an area cowpunk music group that break up in 1995. While carrying on to try out drums for additional organizations, he crossed pathways having a bartender called Meg White colored, and both were wedded in 1996. Jack port got Meg’s surname, as well as the set formed the White colored Stripes following a Bastille Day time jam session demonstrated promising results. Making use of their color-coded picture and raw, punky appear, the White colored Stripes became an essential component from the garage area rock and roll revival from the past due ’90s. Furthermore with their music, the bandmembers stirred open public interest by declaring to become siblings, a declaration that appeared slightly much less incestuous when Jack port and Meg Light divorced in 2000. Regardless of the divide, the Light Stripes just grew in reputation as the 10 years progressed, eventually earning three consecutive Grammy Honours and issuing many platinum-certified albums. Following discharge of Elephant in 2003, Jack port Light took a rest in the group to create Loretta Lynn’s Truck Lear Rose. A crucial smash, the record helped endear Lynn to a fresh generation of supporters, thanks partly to White’s reliability as a rock and roll artist. Then returned towards the Light Stripes for the discharge of Obtain Behind Me Satan, which noticed him growing his instrumental range with piano and marimba. Quickly thereafter, he released a concurrent group, the Raconteurs, with friend Brendan Benson and two associates from the Greenhornes (who, incidentally, acquired served as support music artists for Truck Lear Rose). The Raconteurs produced their debut with 2006’s Broken Boy Military and toured to get the record, while Light publicly pressured that his function in the music group shouldn’t be regarded as a aspect project or even a diversion through the Light Stripes. Hence, he started juggling his duties to both groupings, partnering with Meg Light once more for the Light Stripes’ 2007 discharge, Icky Thump, before time for the Raconteurs for 2008’s Consolers from the Unhappy. While touring to get the latter record, Light experienced bronchitis and frequently lost his tone of voice, prompting vocalist Alison Mosshart (through the Raconteurs’ touring companions, the Kills) to climb on-stage and lead her personal vocals. The chemistry between Mosshart as well as the Raconteurs became alluring, as well as the music artists opted to create another group called the Dead Weather conditions. With Jack White colored now managing drums, the music group retreated towards the studio room and recorded a lively debut, Horehound, in just a matter of weeks. Released in ’09 2009, the recording was well received on both edges from the Atlantic, breaking the very best Ten in the us and peaking at quantity 14 within the U.K. Motivated by such achievement, the Dead Climate began focusing on a second recording through the fall, using the purpose of previewing many new tracks during an Australian tour in early 2010. For the time being, Light secured enough leisure time to surface in a film — the guitar-themed IT COULD Obtain Loud — and make an record for his wife, songwriter Karen Elson. The very first single outing from Light, the bluesy, typically idiosyncratic Blunderbuss, called to get a muzzle-loading firearm which was a precursor from the shotgun, came on Apr 24, 2012. It quickly debuted within the American graphs at number 1, the very first White-associated record to take action. Blunderbuss also gained many Grammy nominations, including Record of the entire year, Best Rock Record, and Best Rock and roll Track for “Independence at 21.” White’s second single recording, Lazaretto, adopted in June 2014, preceded from the solitary “Large Ball Stepper.” It debuted at number 1 around the pop graphs and earned reviews that are positive. The Dead Weather conditions released their third record, Dodge and Burn off, in Sept of 2015, along with a season later Light released Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, a double-disc compilation of acoustic amounts from his different projects. In Apr 2017, he slipped a shock instrumental one called “Fight Cry.” A lifelong football fan, it had been announced that the tune would be utilized because the walk-up music for Detroit Tigers infielder Ian Kinsler, with whom Light co-owns the football bat business Warstic.
Quick Facts
Full Name Jack White
Height 1.88 m
Profession Drummer, Actor, Guitarist, Music Producer, Songwriter, Film producer, Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Music Video Director, Film Score Composer, Percussionist
Awards Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance, Grammy Award for Best Country Album, Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, Satellite Award for Best Original Song
Music Groups The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, Goober & the Peas, The Go, Two-Star Tabernacle, The Upholsterers
Music Songs Love Interruption, Lazaretto, Sixteen Saltines, Love Is Blindness, Another Way to Die, I'm Shakin', Freedom At 21, Would You Fight for My Love?, That Black Bat Licorice, Wayfaring Stranger, High Ball Stepper, Just One Drink, Hip Poor Boy, Love is the Truth, I Guess I Should Go To Sleep, Alone in My Home, Fly Farm Blues, Sittin' On Top of The World, Hypocritical Kiss, Temporary Ground, Missing Pieces, Three Women, Trash Tongue Talker, Take Me With You When You Go, Ball & Biscuit, 2 Fingers of Whiskey, We Are Going to Be Friends, Entitlement, Top Yourself, Battle Cry, Steady, as She Goes, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Albums Blunderbuss, Get Behind Me Satan, Lazaretto, Live at Third Man Records, Acoustic Tour 2015, Live From Bonnaroo 2014, Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016, iTunes Festival: London 2012
Nominations Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Rock Album, Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Grammy Award for Best Music Video, MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video, Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song, MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction, MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects, Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Look, NME Award for Best Solo Artist, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song, NME Award for Worst Dressed, Danish Music Award for International Album of the Year, NME Award for Best Haircut, People's Choice Award for Favorite Song in a Movie, NME Award for Best Dressed
Movies It Might Get Loud, Cold Mountain, Quantum of Solace, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Shine a Light, The American Epic Sessions, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Rosary Murders, The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights, Something for Everyone, Stones in Exile, The White Stripes: Rhinoceros, Listen Lena, Sonic Revolution: A Celebration of the MC5, The White Stripes: Candy Coloured Blues, Up Pops the Duke
TV Shows House Band
Facts
Filmography
Awards
Salaries
Quotes
Trademarks
Pictures
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Fact
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His maternal grandparents were Polish. His father had Scottish-Canadian ancestry.
2
Studio album "Icky Thump" was released. [June 2007]
3
As one of an ensemble of musicians who paid homage to honoree Paul McCartney on the occasion of his "Gershwin Prize for Popular Song", White performed McCartney's classic ballad "Mother Nature's Son" at the White House (June 2, 2010). The festive ceremonies were presided over by President Barack Obama, no stranger to the music of The Beatles.
4
Jack and his wife, Karen Elson, became the parents of their second child, a boy named Henry Lee Gillis, on August 7, 2007.
He wanted to become a priest prior to be a musician.
9
Daughter, Scarlett Teresa White, born 2 May 2006 in Tennessee. Scarlett has Jack's legal last name, which has been White since his marriage to Meg White.
10
Has a side project titled The Raconteurs with friends. The band consist of Jack Lawrence, Brendon Benson, Jack White and Patrick Keeler.
11
Explains that the band is based around the number 3, and even calls himself Three Quid when in the UK.
12
2003 Grammy winner - songwriter - Best Rock Song - "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes.
13
2003 Grammy Winner as The White Stripes - Best Alternative Music Album - "Elephant".
14
He and wife, Karen Elson, a model for Prada and Banana Republic, were married in a canoe in the Amazon River in Brazil.
15
His relationship with Renée Zellweger (they met during the filming of Cold Mountain (2003)) ended over the Christmas holidays in 2004.
16
Produced Loretta Lynn's 2004 album "Van Lear Rose". He also played guitar on the album and duets with Loretta on the track "Portland Oregon."
17
Often refers to ex-wife and band mate, Meg White, as his sister. It was revealed this was untrue when their marriage and divorce certificates were posted onto the Internet.
18
Likes to collect ancient human bones and taxidermic objects.
19
In mid-2003, after filming Cold Mountain (2003), he was involved in a car accident along with passenger and co-star Renée Zellweger. Renee was unhurt, but White wound up with a broken finger which coincidentally postponed his The White Stripes tour.
arranger: "Beautiful Dreamer", "The Girl In The Flying Trapeze" / producer: "Red's Theater of the Absurd", "Beautiful Dreamer", "The Girl In The Flying Trapeze" / writer: "Red's Theater of the Absurd"
The Great Gatsby
2013
performer: "Love Is Blindness" / producer: "Love Is Blindness"
The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
2013
TV Mini-Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Show Jana Krause
2013
TV Series music - 1 episode
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards
2013
TV Special performer: "Love Interruption", "Freedom at 21" / writer: "Love Interruption", "Freedom at 21"
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2012-2013
TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Mama
2013/I
performer: "Missing Pieces"
Conan
2011-2012
TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Hawaii Five-0
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012
Impractical Jokers
2012
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Rage
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012
writer: "Hello Operator", "Fell In Love With A Girl"
Girl Most Likely
2012
writer: "Effect and Cause"
Premium Rush
2012
writer: "Salute Your Solution" - as Jack White, III
The Campaign
2012
writer: "Salute Your Solution"
ParaNorman
2012
writer: "Little Ghost"
So You Think You Can Dance
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2009
Dancing with the Stars
2012
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Later... With Jools Holland
TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 2009 - 2012 performer - 1 episode, 2012
Burn
2012/I
Documentary writer: "Icky Thump"
Saturday Night Live
TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 2002 - 2012 performer - 1 episode, 2012
Wanderlust
2012
writer: "Old Enough" - as Jack White III
ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards
2012
writer: "Seven Nation Army" - as J. White
Kirstie's Handmade Britain
2011
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Pastor Mike Online
2011
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Footloose
2011
writer: "Catch Hell Blues"
So You Think You Can Dance Canada
2011
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
writer: "I Can't Hear You"
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
2011
Documentary writer: "Seven Nation Army"
Late Show with David Letterman
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2011 writer - 1 episode, 2010
The Green Hornet
2011
writer: "Red Death At 6:14", "Blue Orchid" - as Jack White, III
P.O.V.
2011
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Elvira's Movie Macabre
2010
TV Series producer: "What Can I Do?"
The Social Network
2010
writer: "Ball And Biscuit" - as Jack White III
Sisko tahtoisin jäädä
2010
writer: "Broken Boy Soldiers"
The Other Guys
2010
writer: "Icky Thump" - as Jack White III
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
2010
writer: "Rolling in on a Burning Tire"
A Girls Night Out
2009
Short music: "Ball and Biscuit"
Dancing with the Stars
2009
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Zombieland
2009
writer: "Salute Your Solution" - as Jack White, III
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
2009
Documentary writer: "The Union Forever"
Guitar Hero 5
2009
Video Game writer: "Blue Orchid"
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2009
TV Series writer - 1 episode
100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs
2008
TV Movie writer: "Seven Nation Army"
Yes Man
2008
writer: "Old Enough"
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2
2008
Video Game writer: "Seven Nation Army"
Quantum of Solace
2008
lyrics: "Another Way to Die" / music: "Another Way to Die" / performer: "Another Way to Die"
It Might Get Loud
2008
Documentary performer: "Cokey Bottle Blues", "Sitting on Top of the World", "Round Up the Cows Blues", "I Will Follow", "Untitled Slide Blues Riffs", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "Fly Farm Blues", "In My Time of Dying", "The Weight" / writer: "Cokey Bottle Blues", "Blue Orchid", "Apple Blossom", "Hotel Yorba", "Blue Veins", "Broken Boy Soldier", "Hello Operator", "Round Up the Cows Blues", "Do", "Icky Thump", "Apple of My Eye", "Fell in Love with a Girl", "Untitled Slide Blues Riffs", "St
Skins
2008
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Shine a Light
2008
Documentary performer: "Loving Cup"
Life
2007
TV Series writer - 1 episode
House M.D.
2007
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Skate.
2007
Video Game writer: "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine"
Damages
2007
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Full of It
2007
writer: "Go It Alone"
Psych
2007
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Austin City Limits
2006
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Clatterford
2006
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
2006
TV Series writer - 1 episode
School for Scoundrels
2006
writer: "Blue Orchid"
The Simpsons
2006
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Real Hustle
2006
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
SingStar Rocks!
2006
Video Game writer: "Blue Orchid"
The Science of Sleep
2006
writer: "Instinct Blues" - as Jack White III
Ha-Shminiya
2006
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Om Gud vill
2006
lyrics: "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" / music: "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
Coachella
2006
Video documentary writer: "Hotel Yorba"
The White Stripes: The Denial Twist
2005
Short producer: "The Denial Twist" / writer: "The Denial Twist"
White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights
2004
Video documentary writer: "When I Hear My Name", "Black Math", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "I Think I Smell a Rat", "Astro", "Hotel Yorba", "Do", "The Hardest Button to Button", "Truth Doesn't Make a Noise", "The Big Three Killed My Baby", "Wasting My Time", "You're Pretty Good Looking for a Girl", "Hello Operator", "Apple Blossom", "Ball and Biscuit", "Let's Shake Hands", "I Fought Piranhas/Let's Build a Home", "Seven Nation Army"
Min f.d. familj
TV Mini-Series lyrics - 1 episode, 2004 music - 1 episode, 2004
Napoleon Dynamite
2004
writer: "We're Going to be Friends"
Cold Mountain
2003
arranger: "Christmas Time will Soon be Over" / lyrics: "Christmas Time will Soon be Over" / performer: "Christmas Time will Soon be Over", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Great High Mountain"
The Work of Director Michel Gondry
2003
Video writer: "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground", "The Hardest Button to Button"
The Hot Chick
2002
writer: "You're Pretty Good Looking"
Tatort
1985
TV Series producer - 1 episode
The Magic of David Copperfield VII: Familiares
1985
TV Special producer: "Breaking Out"
Actor
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Muppets.
2016
TV Series
Jack White
Bridge School News
2013
TV Series
Jack White: I'm Shakin'
2012
Video short
Elvira's Movie Macabre
2011
TV Series
Drummer
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
Elvis Presley
Mutant Swinger from Mars
2003
Video
Mikey
Cold Mountain
2003
Georgia
Coffee and Cigarettes
2003
Jack (segment "Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil")
The Rosary Murders
1987
Altar Boy (uncredited)
Composer
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Chroma
2011
Short
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
2009
Documentary
The White Stripes: The Denial Twist
2005
Short
White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights
2004
Video documentary
Producer
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Epic: The Big Bang
2016
Documentary executive producer post-production
The American Epic Sessions
2017
Documentary executive producer
The Big Bang
2017
Documentary executive producer
Out of the Many, the One
2015
Documentary executive producer
Music Department
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Maya & Marty
2016
TV Series composer - 1 episode
Sound Department
Sound Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights
2004
Video documentary sound mixer
Thanks
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Soy Nero
2016
special thanks
The Vanishing Point
2011
Short special thanks
Elvira's Movie Macabre
2010
TV Series special thanks - 1 episode
Self
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Jack White: Unstaged
2012
Video
Himself
Later... With Jools Holland
2006-2012
TV Series
Himself / Himself (Interview) / Himself - Interview
The Colbert Report
2011-2012
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest / Musical Guest
Die Harald Schmidt Show
2012
TV Series
Himself
Saturday Night Live
2012
TV Series
Himself - Musical Guest
American Pickers
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
2011
Documentary
Himself
CMT Insider
2009-2011
TV Series
Himself
Late Show with David Letterman
2002-2011
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Musical Support
45 Min
2010
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: In Performance at the White House - Paul McCartney
2010
TV Special documentary
Stones in Exile
2010
Documentary
Himself
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
2009
Documentary
It Came from Detroit
2009
Documentary
Himself
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
TV Series
Himself
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
TV Series
Himself
Quantum of Solace: The Music
2009
Video short
Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2003-2009
TV Series
Himself
Quantum of Solace: Royal World Premiere Special
2008
TV Movie
Himself
Entertainment Tonight
2008
TV Series
Himself
It Might Get Loud
2008
Documentary
Himself
Shine a Light
2008
Documentary
Himself (as Jack White III)
Backstage Pass
2007
TV Series
Himself
Absolute Garbage
2007
Video
Himself
CMT: The Greatest - 40 Days That Shaped Country Music
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
CMT: The Greatest - 40 Greatest Albums
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Simpsons
2006
TV Series
Himself
Rockfeedback TV
2006
TV Series
Himself
House Band
2005-2006
TV Series
Himself
Two Headed Cow
2006
Documentary
Himself
Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Fearless Freaks
2005
Documentary
Himself
The 47th Annual Grammy Awards
2005
TV Special
Himself - Performer
60 Minutes Wednesday
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
The White Stripes: The Denial Twist
2005
Short
Himself
White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights
2004
Video documentary
Himself
I've Been Twelve Forever
2004
Video documentary
Himself (as The White Stripes)
Climbing 'Cold Mountain'
2004
Video documentary
Himself
Today
2004
TV Series
Himself - Performer
MTV Backstage at the Grammys 2004
2004
TV Special
Himself (as The White Stripes)
Rock 'n' Roll Myths
2004
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Words and Music of 'Cold Mountain'
2003
TV Movie
Himself
A Journey to 'Cold Mountain'
2003
TV Short documentary
Himself
MTV Europe Music Awards 2003
2003
TV Special
Himself - Performer (as The White Stripes)
The Work of Director Michel Gondry
2003
Video
Himself (segments "Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground" - "The Hardest Button to Button" and "I've Been Twelve Forever") (as The White Stripes)
The White Stripes: Candy Coloured Blues
2003
Documentary
Himself
MTV Video Music Awards 2002
2002
TV Special
Himself (as The White Stripes)
Biography
1995
TV Series documentary
Himself
American Epic: The Big Bang
2016
Documentary post-production
Born in Chicago
2013
Documentary post-production
Himself
The American Epic Sessions
2017
Documentary
Himself
The Big Bang
2017
Documentary
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-2016
TV Series
Himself - Musical Guest / Himself / Himself - Guest
Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music
2016
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
American Masters
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself
CBS This Morning
2016
TV Series
Himself
The Nation's Favourite Bond Song
2015
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Out of the Many, the One
2015
Documentary
Himself
American Epic
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary
Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special
2015
TV Special
Himself (uncredited)
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2014
TV Series
Himself - Musical Guest
The Big Interview with Dan Rather
2014
TV Series
Himself
Farm Aid 2014
2014
TV Movie
Himself
Conan
2010-2014
TV Series
Himself - Musical Guest / Himself - Guest / Musical Guest / ...
2014 MTV Movie Awards
2014
TV Special
Himself - Cameo #49
Charlie Rose
1996-2013
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
CMT Crossroads
2013
TV Series
Himself
O Music Awards 4: 24 Hour Live Online Special
2013
TV Special
Himself
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards
2013
TV Special
Himself - Performer / Nominee
Austin City Limits
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself - Musical guest
Portlandia
2012
TV Series
Himself
The Joy of the Single
2012
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Source
2012
Himself
Le grand journal de Canal+
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend 2012
2012
TV Movie
Himself
Tracks
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Interview
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Non mais t'as vu ce que t'écoutes
2011
TV Series
Himself
E! True Hollywood Story
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself
Video on Trial
2006
TV Series
Himself - White Stripes / Himself - Accused
CD:UK
2006
TV Series
Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
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We live in an age where everyone wants a heartfelt story from the singer - where 'I' means him - and I never saw it that way. It's as ridiculous as saying Michael Corleone is Francis Ford Coppola. People have become too obsessed with the idea that all songs should be written from the heart. I find that complete strangers have no right to be part of my private life. I would never give that to them.
2
Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
3
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.
4
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
5
Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.
6
For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.
7
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
8
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
9
If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
10
People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
11
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.
12
My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
13
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.
14
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
15
I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
16
I won't join another band again.
17
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
18
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
19
I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
20
I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
21
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
22
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.
23
I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.
24
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.
25
An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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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.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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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, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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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.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
37
I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.
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We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realizing we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.
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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 I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's 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.
43
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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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.
45
I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
46
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
47
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
48
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
49
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
50
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.
51
[on growing up in Detroit] I think you learn how to walk down the street in a certain way. I think you just learn to have a way about yourself, a style of walking down the street, that keeps people away from you.
52
No matter how much I try to write a song about characters and the interactions they're having, no matter what I do, I can never make it not come from my own experiences. As an artist you're a victim of your environment. I'd like to make up a scenario, but my writing ends up having a lot to do with with things I've felt and observed.
53
Younger musicians might look at someone who's quote-unquote "made it," and think well, that's it, they won the lottery now they can do whatever they want, and that means go to the Bahamas and just party all the time. But my opinion has always been if you call yourself an artist, you have a responsibility to that liberty that you've given yourself. You don't have a day job where you work 9 to 5 at a factory because your an artist? Well, okay, well then you better make some art. That doesn't mean you can sit around all day and do nothing. That's the way I treat myself, and those are the artists I respect who do that. And it doesn't have anything to do with being a workaholic or anything like that; it's about creating all the time, because that's what you can't help but do.
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Vinyl is the only thing that's rising because I think it's the only thing that the real music lovers are attaching themselves to-because it's a tangible format that has lasted this long for a reason, because it still sounds the best, it still feels the best. There's an inherent romance to it. When you see the disc moving around, you feel connected, you got up and put the needle down, you feel connected. Just like in a movie theater when they turn the lights down and the movie comes up you feel reverential toward it. When it's digital and you can fast-forward and skip it with a mouse and click it off, you're not reverential toward the music. You're the one is control and you're pushing it around. You can imagine if you're in a movie theater and you could fast forward the movie, it would be a disaster. That's what vinyl is to music.
... All the music lovers know it, all the musicians know it, we've all been saying that no one wants it to be invisible and digital. It's great to have a portable song that you can listen to in your car, that's great, but when it comes down to it, we want to be reverential toward the art form, and the music business is in a giant mess right now, because of technology. And that's the only reason. If the technology hadn't changed we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
... If you tell someone about a band, if they can't go on YouTube and listen to the band, they get disinterested and they'll move onto something else. You used to go travel around. I used to go really far, to another record store like 45 minutes away because they had the record that the other store didn't . You'd get up out of your seat and do something for real.
That's what this truck is about: it's about people coming here and experiencing something for real. There's a novelty aspect to it, but the best part of it is that people are coming here with their physical bodies and they're talking about music together and what bands they like and what records Third Man is putting out that they've got, and we have Third Man playing onstage. There's nothing going on here in the virtual world, this is all real. That's the thing about coming to a festival, people really want to experience music.
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Long Black Hair
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JB Hutto Montgomery Airline guitar
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The colours white, red and black are the trademark colours of his band The White Stripes.
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