Viral Music Phenom Jacob Collier: This âLife-Changingâ Moment Unlocked New Creative Powers
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Jacob Collier has been called the âMozart of Gen Zâ by the New York Times. As a teen, his one-man-band performances went viral and led to a cold email from (and friendship with) music legend Quincy Jones - one of many topics he discusses in this episode.
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(0:00:00) Intro
(0:01:22) Jacobâs early life, learning to sing and play instruments
(0:14:45) What makes a good singer?
(0:19:45) His experience in school
(0:23:45) Going viral on CZcams
(0:30:00) Can anyone be creative?
(0:34:45) Optimism
(0:42:00) Record labels âdidnât know what to do with meâ
(0:47:36) What does the future hold for Jacob?
(0:53:45) Djesse Vol 4 and collaborating remotely with big-name artists
(0:57:30) Human choirs
Mentioned in this episode:
⢠Jacobâs rendition of Pure Imagination - ⢠Pure Imagination - Jac... and
⢠Directing an audience choir Jacob Collier - The Audience Choir (Live at O2 Academy Brixton, London)
⢠TED Talk -www.ted.com/talks/jacob_colli...
⢠Tiny Desk Concert (2019) - ⢠Jacob Collier: NPR Mus...
Connect with Jacob:
⢠đťWebsite: www.jacobcollier.com/
⢠đşCZcams: / @jacobcollier
⢠đ¸Instagram: / jacobcollier
⢠đľTikTok: / jacobcollier
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âI revere my audiences..,theyâre part of the bandâ đđťspreading so much joy to the world, thank you Jacob!
The intersection of Guy Raz -- the greatest interviewer of builders and creators in our generation -- interviewing Jacob Collier -- the greatest musician of our generation IMHO -- is... in a word... transcendent đ
Listening to him is always a treat :)
Gem of an interview! So happy this just showed up as a suggestion. Jacob is an enlightnened being here to spread the love. Infinite gratitude â¤
Thank you Guy for asking Jacob about how the absence of his father affected him and asking him with very good tack. Though all in all it is really none of my business about his personal life, it really spoke to me. Great interview.
Jacob is such a joy. Such a brilliant communicator, on top of being a brilliant musician.
Exceptional talk! So well researched Guy Raz, you knew the detail and formulated good questions around that information. Easy sub, for me...
Just listening to this for the second time đ the wisdom, authenticity and humility in this amazing human being is just beautiful đđťthank you so much for sharing it đ
What an amazing interview. I was deeply touched by Jacob's admiration of great Renaissance composers like William Byrd and Thomas Tallis!
Absolute clarity and Truth in everything Jacob expresses. Such a pleasure to listen to. Thank you for facilitating such an inspiring conversation â¤đđđ
Incredible interview! I could listen to Jacob speak for days, I learn so much.
âAI built to exaggerate current forms.â Smartest line Iâve heard in a month.
Amazing Interview, Jacob is such an interesting person and Guy is such a Good interviewer, letting the guest all the time to express, and asking very interesting questions. I highly recommend Guyâs podcasts !
Such a great interview. Iâve listened to countless Jacob interviews and I havenât come across anyone who tapped into his thoughts on his own optimism and if itâs easy for him to feel that way; thank you for opening up that conversation.
2:12 2nd language: avid listener, avid player, avid singer
2:26 found music to be a very very valuable and rich companion to all stages of life right from the very beginnings to the present moment
2:37 lucky to have had access to the breadth of music but also the curiosity of music like: how does this work; why do I FEEL like this when I hear this chord or this sound; how is the energy controlled; what are the human beings trying to say?
Excellent interview! Thanks for sharing
Grandfatherâs cutlery đ¤Łđ¤Ł
Excellent articulations of healthy, integrated, honest and possibility-laden thought processes.
Glastonbury, "just a bunch of plebs"
6 grammys buddy,....6 grammys
Cool, but he has 6 Grammys including one with Säje
Great conversation.
3:30
I picked it up as I went along.
I was very interested in how to be a bass player or a drummer or how to play piano. âŚthere was no qualifications that I had other than my DEEP INTERESTâŚand I had
1. a microphone (SM58)
2. A computer
3. Software to layer up
4. these different sounds
5. to imitate and replicate
6. the things I was hearing in the world around me
7. vocals
8. harmonies
9. the way they can layer up
10. eventually more instruments
11. lucky to have that music space/room.
Great interview
47:00 "Jacob have to surprise us, and if he doesn't surprise us he's doing it wrong !"
Maybe if they expect Jacob to surprise them with his music, him not surprising them would be the surprising thing ! Hence creating another kind of "surprise paradox" !
@16:30⌠Dave Weckl ( back in the day)âŚ
p.s We Love Dave Weckl!!
Iâve added JC to my Mt Rushmore â¤ď¸đđ˝
your videos are amazing. i really like it. i am a new subscriber to your channel. can i talk with you Raz?
38:57
11:48
My attitude to creativity in general was: I will
1. use the things I have around me, whatever they are,
2. to make things I care about.
The family piano - (like one of my dearest companions)
Guitar at age 13
Bass age 14
Sauce pans
Spoons
It wasnât so much a bunch of instruments. I didnât have a huge AMOUNT to create with but I had a MASSIVE APPETITE for creativity.
The one thing I ALWAYS had was my voice. I would use my voice to re-create sounds of instruments I didnât have: trumpets, trombone, flutes, clarinets.
Casio keyboard
Or any keyboard
contains
100 rhythms
200 sounds
Bossa Nova, Reggae, Polka, Rock and Roll
Tubular Bells
Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer
Casio to Logic
Tons more sounds.
Orchestral. Drum sounds.
Enjoyed the process of learning, first hand, by touching these materials like âWhat does this stuff mean? What can it do?â and joining the dots between things I heard on CDs
I re-created my own version of that for fun. That ended up being a very valuable way of learning those early ropes.
T-pain was the one who put me on Jacob.
TLDR: "By the time I was 4 I grew bored with the violin".
6:54 I definitely wasnât a theater kid. I didnât parade myself about or exaggerate my behavior for others.
I think I exaggerated inwards, perhaps: I would feel a lot of things vividly and I would seek ways of explaining them.
I wanted to craft stuff I cared about.
Being a craftsman
appealed to me more than
being a showman.
9:20 singing lessons
Cathedrial singing
Tender fragile moving boysâ voice.
Thomas Tallis
William Bird