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.
MITSKIEverything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
More Mitski Quotes
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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