Jack Garratt Quotes
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Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.
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As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.
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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 the music around me.
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Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
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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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It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
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The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
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When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.
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The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.
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I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.
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I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.
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I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.
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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've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.
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I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
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I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.
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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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The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
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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 got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.
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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.
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Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
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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've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.