Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKII think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
More Mitski Quotes
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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