I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKIAll the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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