I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is 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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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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