Quotes by Jack Garratt - Page 2

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.
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Intense
Stunned
Life Music Me
Physically
Bbc
Emotionally
Poll
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I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.
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Fascinated
Entertain
Scores
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I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.
Jack Garratt /
Realising
Showing
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I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.
Jack Garratt /
Music Industry
Primary School
Safety
Safety Net
Net
Qualification
Studying
Tackle
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I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.
Jack Garratt /
Believe I Believe I Believe That
Defeats
Designed
Instrument
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I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.
Jack Garratt /
Irrelevant
Love Music Great
Manipulating
Quite A Lot
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I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.
Jack Garratt /
Instruments
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There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.
Jack Garratt /
Underneath
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I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.
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Dislike
Wrong Reasons
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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.
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Instruments
Mates
Realised
Shut Up
Shut
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I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.
Jack Garratt /
By The Time
Frame
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I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.
Jack Garratt /
Buying
Saved
Cd
Pocket
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Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.
Jack Garratt /
Faster
Time Me Long
Channel
Time Long Me
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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.
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Having Fun
Love Change Music
Acoustic
Liking
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I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.
Jack Garratt /
Teacher
Dropping
Honest
Primary School
Life Education Teacher
Life Education Great
Ended
Primary
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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 /
Pop Music
Stigma
Taboo
Attached
Crawl
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It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.
Jack Garratt /
Brits
Critics
Genuine
Highlights
Honour
Importance
New Music
Significant
Acts
Alongside
Award
Nominated
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I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing all those things. When I was about ten, I realised I could get attention by doing that, so when I was eleven, I started writing songs.
Jack Garratt /
Instruments
Loud
Nine
Realised
Aged
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I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.
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Honesty
Forcing
Instinctively
Organically
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I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into something globally obtainable. Anyone can listen and enjoy it because there's something for everyone. That woke me up to the possibilities of pop music.
Jack Garratt /
Manipulate
Pop Music
Life Music Me
Stevie
Globally
Possibilities
Stevie Wonder
Woke
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I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.
Jack Garratt /
Consistent
Loud
Peaceful
Resentful
Music Myself Me
Music Myself Always
Critic
Favours
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I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!
Jack Garratt /
Pretty Girl
Wondrous
Love Me Song
Stevie
Prolific
Stevie Wonder
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I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.
Jack Garratt /
Eight
No Idea
Laptop
Literally
Produced
Tracks
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I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.
Jack Garratt /
Beneficial
Improvising
Lessons
Although
Prefer
Finding
Instrument
Piano Lessons
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The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.
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Click
Grid
Most Important Thing
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I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.
Jack Garratt /
Absorb
Actively
Beside
Quick
Techniques
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I was a huge pop music fan as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It was like watching a cartoon. There was so much going on, and the production was so well mixed. Stevie Wonder was able to give you those melodies and production but back it up with such creative integrity and real musicianship and artistry.
Jack Garratt /
Artistry
Cartoon
Musicianship
Pop Music
Stevie
Melodies
Mixed
Stevie Wonder
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