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.
MITSKIThings 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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