Jack Garratt Quotes

Making music is fantastic.

Composing is my life blood.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Make your own music. It can be done.