When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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 my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 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.
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