Top 44 Grace Chatto Quotes

Well, the band name is just a stupid thing. We used to live in Russia and our friend there, a Russian lady just kind of described my sister as a clean bandit.

Gigs in Scotland are always so much fun.

We really want Harry Styles to sing one of the songs that we’ve got.

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.

I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

Me wanting to play in Israel is not me making a statement about what’s going on there.

To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.

We do write our own music.

This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.

We don’t really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.

The Tories will do everything they can to squash anything threatening to them and I think the involvement of young people in politics is threatening to them and we just don’t really care.

Mozart’s House’ had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

If it’s a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill’s ‘Forgive Them Father’ the most, especially the harmonies.

Neil Amin-Smith and I met playing in classical orchestras when we were children. We are from the same area of London. We met Jack Patterson when we were studying at Cambridge University, and decided to start the band together.

We watch the MOBOs every year and it has always been a dream to be involved.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

We’d love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I’ve told him. Many times. We’ve got loads of songs we’ve written that we can literally just hear his voice on.

Being in adverts, it’s a tricky thing, I suppose.

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we’ve always kind of done it.

We’re kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

We were introduced to a lot of dance music that we were blown over by. Kidnap Kid we love, WOZ, and Rudimental.

I’ve spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.

A ‘Clean Bandit’ is a total bastard!

I often find myself listening to the ‘Shipping Forecast’ on Radio 4. At first, I am usually wondering what time it is, but then, because often I’m on the other side of the bed and I can’t be bothered to turn it off, I just listen and it becomes very relaxing.

We like to party.

I never identified as a woman too much, because women aren’t too different from men. But with all the #MeToo and Time’s Up stuff, I thought about it differently.

I don’t know a lot of Kasabian’s music. I am into rock music but I don’t know their stuff.

Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

For me, I’m not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for me to engage in party politics and hear speeches and have discussions.

We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.

I’m of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I’m certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don’t do within our projects. We produce our music together and I direct and edit the music videos.

We wanted to be like Radiohead. When they started experimenting with electronic music, it gave us the idea that it might be a cool idea to do.

‘A&E’ is one of my favourite songs we’ve made in terms of the production.

I’ve always been interested in alternative family structures.

Drake, the way he uses that Auto-Tune has always been attractive, hasn’t it?

Yeah, we’re definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it’s all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of ‘getting together with people just for the sake of it’ kind of thing.

Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right.