Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
MITSKII lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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