My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKII don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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