For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I was a huge pop music fan as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong… — Jack Garratt Copy Share
It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it. — Jack Garratt Copy Share
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up… — Jack Garratt Copy Share
People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know. — Jack Garratt Copy Share
My mum would play Stevie Wonder around the house, and I remember just loving the songs and feeling so blown away by how much… — Jack Garratt Copy Share
I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from… — Jack Garratt Copy Share
The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible. — Jack Garratt Copy Share
The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents. — Jack Garratt Copy Share
The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me. — Jack Garratt Copy Share
Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them… — Jack Garratt Copy Share
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… — Jack Garratt Copy Share
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. — Jack Garratt Copy Share
Performing outside is always kind of strange. Usually, you can't hear something, whether it's your voice or instrument, but it's a fun challenge. — Jack Garratt Copy Share
I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow;… — Jack Garratt Copy Share
