Jack Garratt Quotes

Jack Garratt

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 11, 1991

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm always working on new stuff.

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

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

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

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I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, 'What're you talking about? Shut up.' And I realised that I was the weird one.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

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My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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