Watch Jack White speak to Oxford University students about “simplicity” of The White Stripes

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Jack White has spoken to students at Oxford University about the “simplicity” of The White Stripes and how that helped them connect with listeners.The singer, songwriter and guitarist made the comments while at an intimate Q&A session at the prestigious university earlier this month.

It comes while he embarked on a number of live shows across the UK over the past week.During a segment of the session, which was shared on his Instagram page, White recalled how he thinks it was the element of simplicity that led to the band getting momentum, and shared that he was surprised to become recognised as a guitarist, as his passion was initially towards a different instrument.“The White Stripes was the project I had that was all about simplicity.

That happened to be the thing that people related to. It spoke to people and people connected with it and it kept growing and growing,” he began.“When you’re passionate about stuff, you don’t know if the things you’re passionate about will also be something interesting for other people,” he continued. “Maybe someone thinks ‘I want to be a stand-up comedian’.

You [might] try to do stand-up and some people laugh, but you don’t get a standing ovation. Then you go and do this play because your friend was in it, then that’s when you got a standing ovation.