I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Music 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.
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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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