All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKII think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
More Mitski Quotes
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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 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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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