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.
MITSKI- I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
More Mitski Quotes
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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.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKIEverything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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.
MITSKII 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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKIWhen someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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.
MITSKII 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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKII’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKII’m punk, but I love gold.
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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.
MITSKIThings 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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
MITSKII really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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.
MITSKII 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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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
MITSKII’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKIYou always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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.
MITSKIIt 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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