All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKII’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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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 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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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