I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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 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 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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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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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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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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