When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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 Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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