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.
MITSKIOn one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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