The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKIWith 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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