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