I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
More Mitski Quotes
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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