Jacob Collier

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

— 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…

— Jacob Collier

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

— Jacob Collier

With the Internet you can research anything.

— 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…

— Jacob Collier

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

— 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?…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jacob Collier

Music is one whole force. And I think the Proms have always represented very clearly that music is a universal language, one…

— Jacob Collier

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

— Jacob Collier

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

— 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…

— Jacob Collier

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be…

— Jacob Collier

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

— Jacob Collier

It just so happened that I had this place called YouTube where everybody in the world could do exactly what they wanted…

— Jacob Collier

I'd say that I'm a really quite a joyful person in general, but I think the idea of joy can be extremely…

— Jacob Collier

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

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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 grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest…

— Jacob Collier

I enjoy exploring music so much.

— Jacob Collier

I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was…

— Jacob Collier