Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Garratt - Page 2

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I'm always working on new stuff.

The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.

It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.

I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.

My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.

I listen to podcasts when I run because it means my mind still gets stimulated by something else.

My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.

I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into something globally obtainable. Anyone can listen and enjoy it because there's something for everyone. That woke me up to the possibilities of pop music.

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.

I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing all those things. When I was about ten, I realised I could get attention by doing that, so when I was eleven, I started writing songs.

When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.

With every milestone that I've come across, there's always been a little note at the bottom that's said, 'Don't worry, there's another milestone coming up.'

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you're confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.

People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.