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He has become my first real idol. Music has always played a huge role in my (at this point quite short) life. But Jack White was the one who trans­formed my life into being really addicted to music and play­ing instruments.

He is one of the best gui­tarists in his­tory and his way of life suits per­fect into my image of a per­fect musi­cian. The fact, that he is doing his thing because he believes in music, wants to res­cue the Rock ‘N Roll and the blues was so inspir­ing to me. He is one of the most hon­est peo­ple in the busi­ness, never stops expand­ing his tech­niques. He was the one expos­ing me to blues and blues-rock music for the first time and his atti­tude stopped my illu­sion, that there are cer­tain things in life that are impossible.

Because he is just 34 but is the owner of a very pros­per­ous label and is singer, song­writer, gui­tarist, pianist and drum­mer — ful­fill­ing these roles in three dif­fer­ent bands which have dif­fer­ent aspects in there music. But he serves this all.

Con­cern­ing the music he makes, “The White Stripes” are def­i­nitely the band, which impresses me the most — every time I hear one of their songs. There is so much dynam­ics and pas­sion in this music, that it makes you for­get, that there are just two peo­ple per­form­ing that stuff.

He has (until now) done things other peo­ple could not even achieve in a whole life — that is really impress­ing. And all he needed to get to his rep­u­ta­tion was a cer­tain atti­tude: Never stop believ­ing — noth­ing is impos­si­ble. Seems a cool way of liv­ing to me. And is really successful.

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