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

- Vijay Iyer

If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came…

- Vijay Iyer

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 to c…

- Vijay Iyer

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can ref…

- Vijay Iyer

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

- Vijay Iyer

The phrase I use is 'easy camaraderie.' Non-western immigrants of color and their progeny like me - my parents came here fifty years ago and I was bo…

- Vijay Iyer

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 didn't notice the first time. Th…

- Vijay Iyer

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the …

- Vijay Iyer

With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But th…

- Vijay Iyer