Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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