I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKIIt’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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, 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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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