I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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’m not an innovator.
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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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