I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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