Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Jacob Collier - Page 2

I'm a huge fan of voice memos. I put down many ideas there and sometimes I even use some of those audio files in my actual recordings. You get this really raw energy from voice memos that you can't get when you sit down in a studio with a microphone. There's this sense of immediacy, which I'm really drawn to.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

It just so happened that I had this place called YouTube where everybody in the world could do exactly what they wanted to do and it's potentially one of the most exciting times I've discovered in the history of anything ever.

I think of what I do for work as playing/jamming. Music for me is so much fun so I don't take my work very seriously in terms of not being humorous, but I take it absolutely seriously in terms of taking the time to make it as rich and glorious as possible.

It's not like I wake up and think, 'Now I'm going to go to work.' It just feels like a continuing exploration.

My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She's a champion.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.