Matana Roberts

It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it…

— Matana Roberts

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a…

— Matana Roberts

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on…

— Matana Roberts

The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved…

— Matana Roberts

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,…

— Matana Roberts

I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm…

— Matana Roberts

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

— Matana Roberts

Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street…

— Matana Roberts

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

— Matana Roberts

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that…

— Matana Roberts

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history…

— Matana Roberts

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that…

— Matana Roberts

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing…

— Matana Roberts