I’m punk, but I love gold.
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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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