Jack Garratt Quotes

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to it, and I exalt it and take it seriously in a way that I think has just permeated my life ever since. And I'm less interested in music that is novelty or jokey or ironic.

I can make a record with six-part string arrangements and the best musicians in the world and have it be not genuine. I'd rather make a genuine record that I truly stand behind and have it fall where it may.

We make music that we believe in. That's all it is.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

If it's not coming from your heart and if you don't believe it, then more than likely you're not going to be able to bring yourself to performances that justify playing.

I just try to sing every song with sincerity.

Music's always been a big part of my life.

I don't think there is a clear-cut avenue for what I do, and I am OK with that. I am just a lover of music.

Hopefully, by the time I do a project, I already have a true understanding and love of what I'm about to do because if I don't, I'm not going to work on that project. I really want to have those connections so I can be truthful to the emotional aspect of what I have to deliver for the story.

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.

You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.

If I don't feel the music, I can't perform it.

Since I was three, music's been my life.