Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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