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 Read Quote
Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work. Jacob Collier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations, I think that was it. I was brought up to see the world as emotional, and anything that I could get my hands on that helped me explore that emotional stuff, I was fascinated by. Jacob Collier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I always created things, layered things on top of each other. That hasn’t changed at all. With this first album, it was basically a celebration of that process of inventing and building sounds. Jacob Collier Read Quote
