I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 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 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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