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.
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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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