I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKIMusic was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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 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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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