I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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