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

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Matana Roberts, born in 1975, is a talented musician known for her unique musical style that blends jazz, classical, and African music elements. She is recognized for her innovative composition techniques and individualistic approach to music. more

“I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.”

Thinking Way Want Giving Trying Used Stuff Style Projects Method Track Hip Hop Rap Storytelling Traditional Hips Hops Vocal

Author:Galcher Lustwerk

“The lyrics are usually the last take. So after like five times, saying it over and over again, your voice starts to relax and you get into the groove of the record. Personally I don't raise my voice; my voice is usually lower, more casual.”

Lasts Voice Records Five Raises Relax Casual Groove

Author:Galcher Lustwerk

“I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.”

Humans Has Beens Hard Whole Bears Species Hard Times Indifferent Pessimistic Tolls Poisoning Human Species Rest Of Life Having A Hard Time Polar Bears

Author:W. S. Merwin

“There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.”

Way Whole Depends Bird Built Stones Structure Species Complicated Cells Developing Related Organisms Pyramids Mammals

Author:W. S. Merwin

“We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.”

Ifs World Mind Made Mistake Late Losing Species Too Late Seconds Made A Mistake

Author:W. S. Merwin

“If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.”

Ifs Thinking Way Has Beens Different Might Decent Balanced Might Have Been Setups

Author:W. S. Merwin

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