I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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 I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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