Skip to content

Technology Quotes by Vijay Iyer

3 Technology quotes by Vijay Iyer

All Technology quotes Vijay Iyer’s page

When a jazz pianist like Vijay Iyer turns his attention to technology, the result is a fresh take on tools that shape our world. He maps the pulse of innovation onto improvisational language, revealing how creativity can steer progress. Anyone interested in the crossroads of art and tech will appreciate his nuanced view.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play…

Image

We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your…

Image

Electronic technology has been a part of music making and music listening for a century. We always treat it like it's new,…

Image

Other authors on Technology

More by Vijay Iyer

What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play instruments there's…

Image

I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who resist naming,…

Image

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.

Image

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

Image

I find myself skeptical of music that forces you to have a certain experience, emotional reaction, or specific constructive arc of experience. But performers…

Image

In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security wards. It…

Image

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

Image

I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me" - more…

Image

Beyond that, it gets down to the nuts and bolts of discipline - not a tradition or genre, I don't care about that, actually…

Image

Music is made of what we do when we move, and we can only move in certain ways, in certain ranges of tempo because…

Image

The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that aside; it's…

Image

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we…

Image

I think what music can offer is the feeling of forward motion, also the feeling of accumulation of information, of sensations, of feelings, like…

Image

A successful relationship is not about two people staring into each other's eyes, it's about two people looking ahead together. I think in order…

Image

Resonance is a physical process through which similarities are highlighted.

Image