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Jack Garratt Quotes
Jack Garratt Quotes
Jack Garratt
British
Musician
Born:
Oct 11
,
1991
Always
Because
Me
Music
People
You
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As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.
Jack Garratt
Harmony
Kid
Melody
Could
Pick
Instinctively
Instruments
Lots
Up
Just
Why
Play
The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.
Jack Garratt
Myself
Musician
Possible
Only
Had
Intention
Different
Creatively
Ever
Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.
Jack Garratt
Think
Boring
Something
Genre
Genres
Because
Forever
Intend
Ever
Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.
Jack Garratt
Life
Music
Me
My Life
Feeling
Pretty
Physically
Winning
Emotionally
Most
Stunned
Sound
Years
Left
End
Intense
Poll
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
Jack Garratt
Other
Ears
Kid
Easily
Would
Could
Pick
Since
Talk
Well
Instruments
Up
Very
Hands
Quite
Little
Little Kid
Each
Ever
I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
Jack Garratt
Noise
Way
Rather
Instruments
Making
Lots
Than
Just
Anything
Loved
Them
Connect
Found
When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.
Jack Garratt
Too Much
Black
Live
Think
Too
Out
Kind
About
Perform
Doing
Lot
Much
I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.
Jack Garratt
Music
Best
Me
Crazy
Other
Head
Feel
Like
Ideas
Make
Because
Making
Leave
Go
Than
Any
Just
Them
Created
Reason
Here
When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.
Jack Garratt
Love
Music
Change
Writing
Kid
Something
Having
More
Having Fun
Songs
Knew
Attention
Liking
Because
Doing
Than
Acoustic
Fun
Needed
I'm always working on new stuff.
Jack Garratt
Stuff
New
Always
New Stuff
Working
Every single pair of trousers I own has a plectrum in it.
Jack Garratt
Single
Own
Every
Trousers
Pair
For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
Jack Garratt
Music
Me
Nothing
Down
Relaxing
Doing
Sitting
Just
Creating
My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.
Jack Garratt
Genius
Church
Musical
Would
Sing
Grandfather
Certain
Choirs
Certain Extent
Organist
Extent
I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, 'What're you talking about? Shut up.' And I realised that I was the weird one.
Jack Garratt
Music
You
School
Try
Would
About
Weird
Stuff
Talk
Instruments
Talking
Around
Go
Mates
Up
Realised
Turn
Shut
Shut Up
Playing
People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.
Jack Garratt
People
Song
Hear
Times
Same
Want
Row
Album
I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
Jack Garratt
Achieve
Will
Believe
Think
Strive
Perfection
Perfectionist
Idea
Any
Thing
I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.
Jack Garratt
Release
Would
Something
Only
Said
Always
Listen
Want
Fan
Ever
I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.
Jack Garratt
Best
Me
Respect
Cause
Way
Best Way
Give
Feel
Audience
Expect
Them
Fun
There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.
Jack Garratt
Music
People
Word
Skin
Think
Changed
Respected
Way
Say
Musician
Taboo
About
Attached
Like
Make
Said
Stigma
Want
Crawl
Pop
Pop Music
Used
Pop Star
Star
I listen to podcasts when I run because it means my mind still gets stimulated by something else.
Jack Garratt
Mind
Else
Run
Something
Something Else
Because
Still
Stimulated
Gets
Listen
Means
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