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.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
More Mitski Quotes
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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