It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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