On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 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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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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