I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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