Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Jay Watson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian musician Jay Watson.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jay Watson

Jay Watson is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the psychedelic rock bands Tame Impala and Pond. Watson records solo material under the name GUM and, as of 2021, has released five studio albums under this name and two singles/ extended plays.

I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.
Whenever I think I know something is a classic, or an amazing song, I realise it's still so subjective, because you and your friends could be talking about something, say, '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' - an amazing classic song - or someone would be like, "'Hey Jude' is an amazing song!", and I'd be like, "I don't really like it."
I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop. — © Jay Watson
I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.
Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.
Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.
I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.
It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.
I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.
I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.
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