I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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