I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
MITSKIAs a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
More Mitski Quotes
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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