I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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 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 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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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