Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
MITSKIWhen 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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