All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I 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.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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