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Jack Garratt

(1991) Singer-songwriter

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Jack Garratt believes music should have passion and integrity, and he tries to keep his work different from his past self. He recalls learning instruments as a child, watching cartoons, and hearing his mother play Stevie Wonder. He also says he rarely listens to music on the go because he writes his own.

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Jack Garratt is a singer-songwriter.

Quick Facts About Jack Garratt

Born: October 11, 1991
Profession: Singer-songwriter

About Jack Garratt

British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer... | Jack Robert Garratt is an English singer, songwriter, and composer from Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire. He released his debut studio album Phase on 19 February 2016, charting in the top-five of the UK Albums Chart. At the 2016 Brit Awards he received the Critics' Choice Award. Garratt released his

Quotes by Jack Garratt

Every single pair of trousers I own has a plectrum in it.

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I'm always working on new stuff.

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I am only interested in celebrating music.

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My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Guitar

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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.

Being

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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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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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I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

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

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

Day

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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.

Harmony

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My mum would play Stevie Wonder around the house, and I remember just loving the songs and feeling so blown away by…

Blown away

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I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

Blues

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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…

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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…

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The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea…

Career

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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…

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With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I…

Being

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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…

Genre

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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…

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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…

Integrity

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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…

Attention

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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…

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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…

Body

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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…

Genius

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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…

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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…

Fun

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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…

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My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.

Creating music

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People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

Album

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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…

Audience

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Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

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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…

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The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do…

Art

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

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

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My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

Church

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The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.

Being

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