I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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 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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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