I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
MITSKIOften I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
More Mitski Quotes
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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.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 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 not an innovator.
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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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