With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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’m not an innovator.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and 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 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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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