Jacob Collier Quotes

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.