Jacob Collier Quotes

Jacob Collier

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 2, 1994

I'd say that I'm a really quite a joyful person in general, but I think the idea of joy can be extremely complex, and rich and varied.

Jacob Collier

D is a wholesome key. It's not bland, like C. It's not neutral. It's probably on the bright side.

Jacob Collier

I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me.

Jacob Collier

Djesse,' essentially, is this spirit. It's this sort of character, very much with some childlike energy, which permeates all of this music... The first album represents kind of pre-dawn, to that moment at the end of the morning when everything's very much alive.

Jacob Collier

I jumped into a world of musical learning that was very much led by myself and then I drew from the music that was all around me.

Jacob Collier

I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was definitely singing from a lot younger than that.

Jacob Collier

I was sort of brought up to sing from the age of two or three I was definitely giving it a go.

Jacob Collier

I've spent so much of my life examining the smallest details. In some ways, it's where I feel most at home. For me, it's super-important to understand all of the different nuances of light and shade. But if you can't paint in primary colours, no one's going to listen to your songs, because they need to feel like something.

Jacob Collier

A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite things and a lot of my favourite people, these can be experienced on many levels.

Jacob Collier

In my experience, my music has drawn people of all ages, which is a real wonderful thing. And at my gigs you get everyone from six year olds to 90 year olds. And I find that really quite moving, actually.

Jacob Collier

I love the interaction with people online, I love engaging with the fans.

Jacob Collier

I suppose for me, with 'Djesse,' I realized fairly early in the process that I also needed a character to walk this path, which in some ways is me, and in some ways is not me. I think of Djesse a bit like the infinite child who can see everything and walk into everything as light as a feather and just alchemize.

Jacob Collier

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.

Jacob Collier

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

Jacob Collier

I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs.

Jacob Collier

The thing with music education is that it is good at teaching technique, but not texture. You only learn about that from listening to music and experimenting on your own.

Jacob Collier

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

Jacob Collier

I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.

Jacob Collier

I was given this music programme called Cubase, one of the first multi-layering programmes, when I was seven, and I graduated to Logica at 11, and that became my primary instrument.

Jacob Collier

Really, I was brought up with music as a second language. My mother was extremely encouraging of the sensitivities of my brain. It was this sense of curiosity but never pressure.

Jacob Collier