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.
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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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’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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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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 what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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