When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKII don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
More Mitski Quotes
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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’m not an innovator.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 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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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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