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.
MITSKIAll the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
More Mitski Quotes
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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