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.
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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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!’
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