When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
MITSKII actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
More Mitski Quotes
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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