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.
MITSKIWhat’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
More Mitski Quotes
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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