Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Du Yun

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese musician Du Yun.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Du Yun is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek. She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018, and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow. In its decade review, UK's Classical FM listed Du Yun's winning of Pulitzer as No.6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever." Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s decade.

Chinese - Musician | Born: June 18, 1977

Source: Wikipedia

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

Du Yun

I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.

Du Yun

In pop music, people take a stand. When you look at a Beyonce or a Kendrick Lamar, they are going to tell you what they think. And audiences totally get it. They totally love it, and they are totally hungry for it. But in our conservatory training, I think it's a little lacking.

Du Yun

Art music is an evolving matter, and so are a lot of cities.

Du Yun

When we look at human trafficking, we always think that it's far away from us.

Du Yun

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

Du Yun

The more tools I have, the more freedom I have.

Du Yun

We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.

Du Yun

I like a lot of different things equally, with no boundaries, and in a very serious way.

Du Yun

It's about how you're using the space. That's what makes live music.

Du Yun

A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.

Du Yun

When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge.

Du Yun

We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.

Du Yun

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

Du Yun

I'm not a programmer; I'm more of a performer. I'm really bad at math.

Du Yun

I'm always going to use music, use culture as a tool to engage people to have this dialog, to enable others. That's very important.

Du Yun