Jack Garratt Quotes

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

You're changing every day, right? Your curiosities and ambitions change, your ear changes, the music you like changes - and the music you want to make, too.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.