I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKIYou can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m not an innovator.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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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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