I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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 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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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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