I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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