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.
MITSKII really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
More Mitski Quotes
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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