Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 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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