The Proms are everything life is all about: people coming together, and joy and music and celebration and togetherness. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
The only reason I create something is because I'm chasing a feeling. You can use a bunch of musical or psychological operations… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I jumped into a world of musical learning that was very much led by myself and then I drew from the music… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
In my experience, my music has drawn people of all ages, which is a real wonderful thing. And at my gigs you… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
The thing with music education is that it is good at teaching technique, but not texture. You only learn about that from… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She's… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Music is one whole force. And I think the Proms have always represented very clearly that music is a universal language, one… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Djesse,' essentially, is this spirit. It's this sort of character, very much with some childlike energy, which permeates all of this music...… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
It's a really interesting situation, because when you make music at home all the energy goes into the process, and touring's all… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I think of what I do for work as playing/jamming. Music for me is so much fun so I don't take my… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Really, I was brought up with music as a second language. My mother was extremely encouraging of the sensitivities of my brain.… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I was given this music programme called Cubase, one of the first multi-layering programmes, when I was seven, and I graduated to… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
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,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
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,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
The thing with music education is that it is good at teaching technique, but not texture. You only learn about that from listening to… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
The Proms are everything life is all about: people coming together, and joy and music and celebration and togetherness. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
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… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
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… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
It's not like I wake up and think, 'Now I'm going to go to work.' It just feels like a continuing exploration. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
The world of Stevie Wonder - in particular, the kind of overflowing joy that exists in every single thing I've ever heard him do,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
It's hard to say that one way of doing things is the best for everybody all the time. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
