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(Music)
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(Singing) I was walking down the line,
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trying to find some peace of mind.
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Then I saw you.
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You were takin' it slow
and walkin' it one step at a time.
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I said, "Listen, stranger,
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I'm feeling low now.
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I don't know which way to go."
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I said, "If you're lost now,
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maybe I could help you along
and sing you a song,
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and move you on and on and on."
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Singing down the line.
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Where shall we go? Where shall we go?
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She said, "I'm looking
for a kind of shelter.
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A place for me to call my own.
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I've been walking all night long,
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but I don't know where to call my home."
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"The only way to find that place
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is close to where my heart is.
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I know I'm gonna get there,
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but I've got to keep on
walking down the line."
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Down the line.
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Down the line.
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Thank you so much.
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(Applause)
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How's everybody feeling today?
You feeling good?
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(Cheers)
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Fantastic. Would everybody mind
singing with me for just one second?
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Could you sing something?
Could you sing a D?
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Sing "Ooh."
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(Audience hums)
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Oh -- louder for me, louder for me.
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(Singing) Oh.
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Now, please, if you could sing,
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"Oh oh oh."
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Audience: Oh oh oh.
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Jacob Collier: Whoa oh oh.
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Audience: Whoa oh oh.
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JC: Sing, "Whoa oh."
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Audience: Whoa oh.
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JC: Oh oh oh.
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Audience: Oh oh oh.
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JC: Sing, "Whoa oh oh."
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Audience: Whoa oh oh.
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JC: Sing, "Whoa oh oh."
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Audience: Whoa oh oh.
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JC: Whoa oh oh.
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Audience: Whoa oh oh.
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JC: Sing, "Whoa oh oh."
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Audience: Whoa oh oh.
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Thank you so much.
That's beautiful. Thank you.
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(Applause)
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Thank you.
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So do you feel that motion?
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Do you feel yourself
as part of that motion,
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things moving underneath the surface?
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So the language of musical harmony
is an absolutely extraordinary one.
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It's a way of navigating
one's emotional frameworks,
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but without the need
to put things into words,
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and I think that,
as with many other languages,
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it doesn't matter how much
you know about a language.
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It doesn't matter
how many words you can say,
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how many phrases you know.
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What matters is the emotional choices
you make with this language.
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So I encourage us to embrace
this idea as a community,
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which is the thing which in time
may grow us towards
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as opposed to away from our own humanity.
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Thank you so much.
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(Applause)
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(Music)
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(Singing) Take me
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anywhere you want to go.
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You know that my love is strong.
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In my hideaway.
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Softly,
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like the calm that follows storms,
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Find what I've been
searching for all along.
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In my hideaway.
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Even when I close my eyes,
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darling, if you've gone astray,
I'm on my way to my hideaway.
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Touch me
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like I've never loved before,
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in the place that I adore,
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in my hideaway.
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I know
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whichever way the wind may blow,
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there will be a place for me to go
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in my hideaway.
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My hideaway.
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Sticks and stones
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I won't hide from you no more.
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And in time
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I find what I've been searching for.
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Heard your voice
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calling out to me.
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I'm on my way
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to where I can be free.
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And if she won't wait for me,
do it right, don't look back,
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keep my heart on the future.
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On the soles of my shoes
all the places I've been
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that I've known since I knew her.
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'Cause it's you, don't you know
that you're making me guess
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that you're the one for me.
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That it's you that I guess
that I wanted to know all along.
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Girl, it's you that I want,
that makes me complete,
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cause you're the one for me.
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It's thanks to you that I guess
that I want you to know I belong.
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One, two, three, four, five.
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(Applause)
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Thank you so much. Thank you.
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(Applause)
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Thank you.
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Thanks so much. Thank you guys.
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Kelly Stoetzel: OK, Jacob. Wow.
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OK, we have some questions.
JC: OK.
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KS: That was spectacular.
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JC: Thank you, Kelly. Thank you.
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KS: Those
visualizations we just saw,
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those were happening in real time, yeah?
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JC: Yeah, so everything visual
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takes cues from things which are audial,
or something, if that's a word,
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and so everything is real time.
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I cue the loops, I play the instruments
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and then the tree, for example,
that you saw grow,
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grows in such a way
that it takes low long notes
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and grows thick long branches,
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and it takes high, quiet notes, whatever,
and then it grows thin, small branches.
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And then my singing voice
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sort of blows wind against the tree.
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KS: So you're 22 years old.
JC: Yes, indeed.
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Moderator: You played
all of that by yourself.
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How did you get started
and how did this all evolve?
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JC: I have this magical room in my house
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in North London,
which is, like, over there.
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(Cheers)
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Thank you. Represent North London.
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And this room --
I mean, this is my family home.
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I grew up in this room
filled with musical instruments,
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but most importantly, I had a family
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who encouraged me
to invest in my own imagination,
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and so things I created, things I built
were good things to be building
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just because I was making them,
and I think that's such an important idea.
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But this room was
my paradise, essentially,
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and when I came to tour my album,
which is called "In My Room,"
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I thought I'd try and tour
the room on the road,
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and that's quite a strange idea,
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but it's something that I've been
working on for a couple of years,
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and it's quite exciting
to be inside the circle.
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KS: So this is really
like the setup in your room, here.
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JC: It kind of is.
It's similar to the room
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in the sense that I can
generate things on the spot
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and I can be spontaneous,
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which is what I think both music
and all of the best ideas are all about.
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KS: So you won two Grammys
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for a record that you made
in your room by yourself.
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And how is that even possible?
We couldn't have done that,
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that couldn't have happened
five years ago even.
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JC: It's a brand new world.
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The power is now
in the hands of the creator,
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as I'm sure you guys would agree,
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as opposed to the big
record company executive
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or the big man or something like that.
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It's somebody with a good idea.
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Here I am at TED saying this
to you guys who know this already,
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but it's somebody with a good idea
who can sow that seed.
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That's the person who carries
the torch into the world.
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And yeah, I made this album
completely on my own
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and I didn't wait for somebody to say,
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"Hey Jacob, you should
make an album on your own."
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I just went ahead and made it
and I didn't mind what people thought,
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and two Grammys is a massive bonus.
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(Applause)
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KS: Thank you so much, Jacob.
JC: Thanks, Kelly. Thanks so much.
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(Applause)