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.
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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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