Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
MITSKII wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that 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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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 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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 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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