It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKII know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
More Mitski Quotes
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual 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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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