I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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