“This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.”
― Grace Chatto
“Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.”
― Grace Chatto
“We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.”
― Grace Chatto
“I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.”
― Grace Chatto
“We watch the MOBOs every year and it has always been a dream to be involved.”
― Grace Chatto
“I’m just so honored to be able to travel around the world and play songs.”
― Grace Chatto
“When we started the band, it was a classical group.”
― Grace Chatto
“We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.”
― Grace Chatto
“We get so many kids telling us that they’ve taken up the violin or cello. It’s really special, and it wasn’t really our intention in the beginning.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“Mozart’s House’ had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.”
― Grace Chatto
“I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.”
― Grace Chatto
“Well, Sean Paul we’ve always wanted to work with.”
― Grace Chatto
“Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.”
― Grace Chatto
“This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we’ve always kind of done it.”
― Grace Chatto
“I wouldn’t call myself a singer.”
― Grace Chatto
“I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.”
― Grace Chatto
“I’ve always been interested in alternative family structures.”
― Grace Chatto
“Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.”
― Grace Chatto
“Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.”
― Grace Chatto
“Me wanting to play in Israel is not me making a statement about what’s going on there.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“If it’s a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill’s ‘Forgive Them Father’ the most, especially the harmonies.”
― Grace Chatto
“If it’s a Clean Bandit-related stress, there are smooth things they play on Classical FM that can help, such as Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings,’ or there is a choral version of it too that is very relaxing.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“Gigs in Scotland are always so much fun.”
― Grace Chatto
“Glasgow with its art and music scene has so much going on, it’s attractive to people and there seems to be a good vibe up there.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“I’m of the opinion that gender is a social construct.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.”
― Grace Chatto
“I’d do another Cortana advert, I don’t see why not.”
― Grace Chatto
“Being in adverts, it’s a tricky thing, I suppose.”
― Grace Chatto
“When something sounds good, I don’t think any of the connotations matter.”
― Grace Chatto
“I didn’t know we’d been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh voice and that’s where it comes from?”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“It was an honor to work with Julia Michaels.”
― Grace Chatto
“Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“We always like working with really powerful female voices.”
― Grace Chatto
“I think fame is really dangerous and… I don’t really like to get too involved in it all.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“We don’t really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.”
― Grace Chatto
“We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.”
― Grace Chatto
“A ‘Clean Bandit’ is a total bastard!”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“Drake, the way he uses that Auto-Tune has always been attractive, hasn’t it?”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“It’s so different in the different states, it is sometimes like being in a different country.”
― Grace Chatto
“We do write our own music.”
― Grace Chatto
“I don’t know a lot of Kasabian’s music. I am into rock music but I don’t know their stuff.”
― Grace Chatto
“There’s a certain kind of humour in Miley Cyrus’ writing, and also a depth.”
― Grace Chatto
“We were introduced to a lot of dance music that we were blown over by. Kidnap Kid we love, WOZ, and Rudimental.”
― Grace Chatto
“The videos are definitely as important as the music.”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“’A&E’ is one of my favourite songs we’ve made in terms of the production.”
― Grace Chatto
“I find the production in ‘A&E’ very beautiful, it reminds me of Ace Of Base, the way the bass has that space and the reggae.”
― Grace Chatto
“I tried to join the RAF cadets at school so I could fly a plane but then I realised you had to do all the other cadet stuff like training before they let you in a plane. Then you’re roped in for life.”
― Grace Chatto
“Italy is best for holidays.”
― Grace Chatto
“Working in Italy can be quite hard because they don’t have schedules – we arrive at TV shows and they’re like, ‘We’re not sure when you’re on, could be a minute, could be an hour.’ We were on their equivalent of ‘The Voice’ and the timing was determined by whenever the judge decided the time was right. We waited five hours!”
― Grace Chatto
“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.”
― Grace Chatto
“We like to party.”
― Grace Chatto
“We really want Harry Styles to sing one of the songs that we’ve got.”
― Grace Chatto
“I think I like attention, but because of the way we are – because we don’t have a lead singer and all the videos have so many different people in them – I think people aren’t really that sure about who’s in the band.”
― Grace Chatto
“To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.”
― Grace Chatto
“Yeah it would be great to do something with Stormzy.”
― Grace Chatto
“We’re kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.”
― Grace Chatto
“I think since our style is different, while jamming we want to let it flow without having any preconceived notions of each other’s style. That is the fun of collaboration, I guess.”
― Grace Chatto
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