The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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