I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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