I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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 young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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