I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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