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 Read Quote
D is a wholesome key. It’s not bland, like C. It’s not neutral. It’s probably on the bright side. Jacob Collier Read Quote
I suppose my job is to describe spaces that are honest to me. And the goal, I suppose, is that the listener can hear themselves in some way in that song and also, in some way, hear me. And so if the listener is able to identify with my honesty then I’m being the most helpful I can possibly be. Jacob Collier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It was a challenge with ‘In My Room,’ because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective. Jacob Collier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The whole ‘Djesse’ project is, like, the paramount example of something that has evolved alongside me creating it. It started as one album, and then I realized that I had too many ideas for just one album. Jacob Collier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The whole life of a song doesn’t end with the way that it sounds on the record. How does this song grow? What works live? What do people like to sing along to? Jacob Collier Read Quote
I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs. Jacob Collier Read Quote
