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.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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.
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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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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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