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.
MITSKII don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
More Mitski Quotes
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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