The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKII’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
More Mitski Quotes
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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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 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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my 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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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