I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKII actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
More Mitski Quotes
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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