All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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You can never learn enough about music.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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