Perfection in Play
Music must be play, joyful and alive. If you're too serious, you lose its essence.
Jacob Collier
Virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and arranger, three-time Grammy winner known for harmonic innovation.
All moments: Jacob Collier
- Music Without Borders — Jacob Collier
Genres are a prison for creativity. The best music is born when you ignore all boundaries and just create.
- Path of Non-Intuitive Harmony — Jacob Collier
I don't listen to the rules of music theory. I listen to my heart. If it sounds right to my ear, then it's right.
- Language of Harmony — Jacob Collier
Harmony is a language. The more words you know, the more you can say. I've spent my life learning this language.
- Expanded Consciousness — Jacob Collier
Music expands your consciousness. It allows you to hear and feel more deeply than ordinary speech.
- School of Life — Jacob Collier
I learned more from life than from formal education. Every experience is a lesson if you listen.
- Gratitude for Music — Jacob Collier
I'm grateful to music. It saved my life and gave me purpose. Everything I do, I do out of gratitude.
Related moments
- Birth of a Legend — Paul McCartney
The Beatles were about growth. We changed every single day.
- All Music Is Folk Music — Louis Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
- Alien Artist — David Bowie
I never tried to fit in. I prefer to be myself, even if it's alien.
- The Soul of Music — Questlove
Soul is what makes music real. It's what people feel
- Spontaneous Music — André 3000
The best music comes spontaneously. When you're not trying, it just appears
- A Song Is Blood — Paul McCartney
A melody comes to me like someone is singing it to me. It's magic.