When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKII’m not an innovator.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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