All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad 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’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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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