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.
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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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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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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I’m not an innovator.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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 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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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