My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
More Mitski Quotes
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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