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With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But the ingredients of electronic music are the same ingredients of nonelectronic music.
Vijay Iyer
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What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.
Vijay Iyer
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I think what music can offer is the feeling of forward motion, also the feeling of accumulation of information, of sensations, of feelings, like we're going somewhere. When I say 'feel like,' I don't mean to suggest that it's not real, but that it's the work of the imagination, which is what narrative is.
Vijay Iyer
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Electronic technology has been a part of music making and music listening for a century. We always treat it like it's new, and cutting edge, but it's actually omnipresent, so we should just treat it as part of the arsenal today.
Vijay Iyer
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I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.
Vijay Iyer
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If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is a building of community, particularly among artists of color. This is what I learned from the example of elder African-American artists, which is where it is all coming from to refuse to be silenced.
Vijay Iyer
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It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.
Vijay Iyer
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"My music is always called ""cerebral."" It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy."
Vijay Iyer
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To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.
Vijay Iyer
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We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that right we will not compete because we won't believe that our people can compete, and we'll turn inward. We won't lead. That will be bad for the world.
Condoleezza Rice
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
Fiona Apple
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I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way
Judy Collins
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I want to see my friends who I have not seen about a year since I've started to do the whole recording thing. I love to sit down with them and have a coffee. I also want to go see movies.
Angela Aki
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Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
Neil Young
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
Jimmy Durante
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One who has hope lives differently.
Pope Benedict XVI
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"I'm definitely happy with everything I've done. I stand behind it. You'll always be saying, ""Well, I could change that, or I would do that differently."" But you have to let it be what it is."
Lenny Kravitz
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I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
Bo Burnham
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Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
Toni Braxton
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It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
Leonard Cohen
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I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.
Taylor Swift
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I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.
Lady Gaga
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I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.
Mike Mills
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I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.
Norah Jones
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