I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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