People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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