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.
MITSKII have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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