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.
MITSKII don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
More Mitski Quotes
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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