What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKII think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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