It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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