Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street sounds and country sounds and city sounds that are very different from what it is I'm used to… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside.… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet,… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland. — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street sounds and… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel. — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents.… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
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