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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I don’t want to be elitist.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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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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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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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