All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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’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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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