There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
MITSKII’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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’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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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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