Jack Garratt Quotes
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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.
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With every milestone that I've come across, there's always been a little note at the bottom that's said, 'Don't worry, there's another milestone coming up.'
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I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.
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I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.
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I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.
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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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When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.
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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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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.
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Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
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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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I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.
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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.
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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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I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.
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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.
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The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.
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I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.
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The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
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For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
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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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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.
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People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.