I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKII lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
More Mitski Quotes
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I 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.
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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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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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