I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another… — Vijay Iyer Attention Copy Share Image
Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a… — Vijay Iyer Art Copy Share Image
What I've learned from my gurus is that when you hear music, you hear a person, or you hear people, and you… — Vijay Iyer Book Copy Share Image
Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a… — Vijay Iyer Business Copy Share Image
I know from the elders that it's not so easy to sustain a life in music, a presence in the music world,… — Vijay Iyer Desire Copy Share Image
I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total… — Vijay Iyer Important Copy Share Image
Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm… — Vijay Iyer Action Copy Share Image
If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben… — Vijay Iyer Aesthetic Copy Share Image
I notice that Indians love to tweet about each other - will be like, yeah, go India, we're awesome, Indians are awesome,… — Vijay Iyer Community Copy Share Image
With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for… — Vijay Iyer Audience Copy Share Image
You figure out how to create opportunities to make music, and then, if you take care of the music, audiences will come… — Vijay Iyer Audience Copy Share Image
I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues,… — Vijay Iyer Art Copy Share Image
There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I… — Vijay Iyer Art Copy Share Image
What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that… — Vijay Iyer Electronic music Copy Share Image
My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy. — Vijay Iyer Asian Copy Share Image
This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been… — Vijay Iyer Black Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A… — Vijay Iyer Black Copy Share Image
My concern with this approach is that music becomes a substance devoid of people. It's a consumer model of what music is:… — Vijay Iyer Concern Copy Share Image
