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.
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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 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’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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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 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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