Jacob Collier Quotes

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.