Jack Garratt Quotes

Jack Garratt

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 11, 1991

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

Jack Garratt

I watch cartoons a lot. I'm a big 'Rick and Morty' and 'South Park' fan.

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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.

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It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

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I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.

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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.

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I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.

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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.

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Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.

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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.

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The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

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I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.

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Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

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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.

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I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

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