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.
MITSKIOn tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
More Mitski Quotes
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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 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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