Du Yun

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

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”