Jacob Collier Quotes

Jacob Collier

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 2, 1994

The bottom line is you need to be authentic, you have to be really honest to yourself.

Jacob Collier

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

Jacob Collier

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

Jacob Collier

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

Jacob Collier

Music is one whole force. And I think the Proms have always represented very clearly that music is a universal language, one that everyone can speak. I've just followed my goosebumps in every direction and have found a recipe for what my music feels and sounds like.

Jacob Collier

So the language of musical harmony is an absolutely extraordinary one. It's a way of navigating one's emotional frameworks, but without the need to put things into words, and I think that, as with many other languages, it doesn't matter how much you know about a language.

Jacob Collier

You always have those moments of standing outside your own life and thinking, 'This is kind of bizarre and quite wonderful.' And I think those moments always catch you off guard.

Jacob Collier

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be an unbelievably hard thing to do.

Jacob Collier

The only reason I create something is because I'm chasing a feeling. You can use a bunch of musical or psychological operations to achieve that result.

Jacob Collier

I'm a huge fan of voice memos. I put down many ideas there and sometimes I even use some of those audio files in my actual recordings. You get this really raw energy from voice memos that you can't get when you sit down in a studio with a microphone. There's this sense of immediacy, which I'm really drawn to.

Jacob Collier

My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She's a champion.

Jacob Collier

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

Jacob Collier

It's a really interesting situation, because when you make music at home all the energy goes into the process, and touring's all about the energy going outward. I had to learn how to do that transition, but once I figured that out it's so much fun.

Jacob Collier

It was what I did after school. I'd learn a song in choir that day and I'd sing it, all the parts.

Jacob Collier

With the Internet you can research anything.

Jacob Collier

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

Jacob Collier

The Proms are everything life is all about: people coming together, and joy and music and celebration and togetherness.

Jacob Collier

I suppose technically I could say I'm based in jazz, just because it's the school of thought that I've been encouraging myself to operate within.

Jacob Collier

As a member of a generation who have been subjected to much over-stimulation, it's hard to say I fit into any one category.

Jacob Collier

I always created things, layered things on top of each other. That hasn't changed at all. With this first album, it was basically a celebration of that process of inventing and building sounds.

Jacob Collier