Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
MITSKIAs a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
More Mitski Quotes
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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