“The idea that something is ‘music’ is a western idea. Music as something that exists on its own without history, or music without story, or music without whakapapa, didn’t happen for us.” — Robert Wiremu on Māori music.
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“It remained truly exhausting and alienating to be brown in the classical world.” — Sophie Yana Wilson.
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“My tūpuna deserve better than a man with a sign asking us to ‘Save Another Western Value from Destruction’.” — Ruby Solly.
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