It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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More Mitski Quotes
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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’m not an innovator.
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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’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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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With 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.
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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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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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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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