When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
More Mitski Quotes
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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