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.
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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I 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.
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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’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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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