All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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More Mitski Quotes
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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