If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKIWith solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
More Mitski Quotes
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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’m not an innovator.
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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 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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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