Vijay Iyer Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• When I give a concert, I know they're not going to hear everything; there might be a lot going on. My individual perceptual and cognitive path through the music is just that: one path through music. My experience will be probably at some level different from other people's, and that multiplicity of experience has to be supported by the music. I might just focus on the cowbell the whole time - maybe I have a fever for more cowbell!

  Vijay Iyer

  Giving, Focus, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security wards. It was infuriating. Those kinds of situations stick with me. We got to come in and play music for them because that's a way of caring, just offering something, a gift, basically. They're basically the most grateful audiences I've ever experienced, because nobody's giving them anything.

  Vijay Iyer

  Grateful, Caring, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

  Vijay Iyer

  Artist, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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