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.
MITSKIPeople started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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