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.
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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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 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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