Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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