I’m not an innovator.
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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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 the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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