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.
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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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.
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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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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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