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.
MITSKII don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
More Mitski Quotes
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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