Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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 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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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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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