Jacob Collier Quotes

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

I like to make great albums.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we don't treat it the same way.

The first project, I made 16 songs and put 12 of them on the mixtape.