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.
MITSKII understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
More Mitski Quotes
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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