You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKIEverything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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