While singers and DJs offered words of mourning or escape for the sufferers, dub reggae-the mostly wordless music of dread-ran directly into the heart of the darkness. In Perry”s “Revelation Dub,” time was creakily kept by a distended, phasing hi-hat and Romeo’s vocal was either reduced to the low hum of some distant street protest or chopped into sudden nonsensical stabs-“Warinna!” “Balwarin!”- as if all words, even warnings, could not be trusted. The riddim-which Marley would later version for “Three Little Birds,” with its bright chorus, “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing’s gonna be alright”-was swung off its moorings, the textual integrity and authority was undermined. Perry’s sound was the epitome of sipple[meaning slippery, precarious]. Dub answered the question: what kind of mirror is it that reflects everything but the person looking into it?

“Dub had a compelling circularity. It exploded in the dancehall at the moment the tenement yards exploded in violence. Dub was the “B-side” to the soaring visions of the democratic socialist dreamers or the apocalyptic warning of the Rasta prophets. As reggae historian Steve Barrow says, “The music of dub represents literally and figuratively ‘the other side.’ There’s an up and a down, there’s an A-side and a B-Side. It’s a dialectical world.”

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

—Mariah Carey

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

—Mariah Carey

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

—Mariah Carey

Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.

—Mariah Carey

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn’t really fit in anywhere.

—Mariah Carey

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don’t take it too seriously.

—Mariah Carey

I don’t mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

—Mariah Carey

I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.

—Mariah Carey

I hope to be around past the 90’s. I don’t want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

—Mariah Carey

I’d rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain’t going to happen.

—Mariah Carey

I’m not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

—Mariah Carey

If critics have problems with my personal life, it’s their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it’s the charts that count.

—Mariah Carey

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

—Mariah Carey

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

—Mariah Carey

It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.

—Mariah Carey

My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.

—Mariah Carey

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I’m tan, I guess.

—Mariah Carey

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

—Mariah Carey

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

—Mariah Carey

There is a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train!

—Mariah Carey

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. For certain engineering purposes, it is desirable to have as silent a situation as possible. Such a room is called an anechoic chamber […] a room without echoes. I entered one at Harvard University several years ago and heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation. Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death.

—John Cage