Jacob Collier Quotes

Jacob Collier

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 2, 1994

I'm a firm believer in the saying that goes, 'If you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans,' kind of approach.

Jacob Collier

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

Jacob Collier

It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think, well, I want to be a piano player, or, I want to be a guitar player, or even, I want to be a singer. I just wanted to be a musician.

Jacob Collier

I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea.

Jacob Collier

I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of these imperfections runs the risk of removing a lot of the magic that makes this music really special, and diminishes music's ability to connect with us as human beings. We are all imperfect, after all.

Jacob Collier

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

Jacob Collier

The world of Stevie Wonder - in particular, the kind of overflowing joy that exists in every single thing I've ever heard him do, every note he sings - that is so deeply inspiring to me in every way.

Jacob Collier

The whole life of a song doesn't end with the way that it sounds on the record. How does this song grow? What works live? What do people like to sing along to?

Jacob Collier

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.

Jacob Collier

I think of what I do for work as playing/jamming. Music for me is so much fun so I don't take my work very seriously in terms of not being humorous, but I take it absolutely seriously in terms of taking the time to make it as rich and glorious as possible.

Jacob Collier

The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations, I think that was it. I was brought up to see the world as emotional, and anything that I could get my hands on that helped me explore that emotional stuff, I was fascinated by.

Jacob Collier

It's hard to say that one way of doing things is the best for everybody all the time.

Jacob Collier

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

Jacob Collier

I'm one of those people that's listened to so much music, I feel like I've soaked it all and not rejected anything, so it's all present there when I'm in my inventing room.

Jacob Collier

I enjoy exploring music so much.

Jacob Collier

I suppose my job is to describe spaces that are honest to me. And the goal, I suppose, is that the listener can hear themselves in some way in that song and also, in some way, hear me. And so if the listener is able to identify with my honesty then I'm being the most helpful I can possibly be.

Jacob Collier

The whole 'Djesse' project is, like, the paramount example of something that has evolved alongside me creating it. It started as one album, and then I realized that I had too many ideas for just one album.

Jacob Collier

Woke Up Today' is a number of different sections compounded together. There's the melodica solo section which is three divisions; there's the really funky thing in eleven before that, there's the chorus and verse and there's the ending which slows down and speeds up.

Jacob Collier

Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.

Jacob Collier

You can't make music on your own for your whole life.

Jacob Collier