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.
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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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 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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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