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.
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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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