Jack Garratt Quotes

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

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 believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

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.

God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.

I have a good ear for music.

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.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

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

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

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

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

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