On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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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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