When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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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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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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 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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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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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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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