Jack Garratt Quotes

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.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.

I finally realized that not only was I passionate about music, but I had a unique way of thinking of music.

I was born understanding the language of music.

I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.