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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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