Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKII didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
More Mitski Quotes
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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