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.
MITSKIThe whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
More Mitski Quotes
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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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 set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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