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.
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’m not an innovator.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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