Jorja Smith Quotes

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

If you like it live, you know that you're probably going to like the record, usually.

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

Live music is better.

I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.

'The Last Five Years,' we sang almost everything live. When we're in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point - it's not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live.

The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.