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.
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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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