I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
More Mitski Quotes
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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 care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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