I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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 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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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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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.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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