Jack Garratt Quotes

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

I feel like that's so important, to enjoy my own music. Because if I'm not passionate about my music, then it's going to show to the fans.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I love the music.

I don't really like being recognised, to be honest. People say nice things and stuff, but I'm not really in it for that side of things. I just want to play music.

We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.