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More Mitski Quotes
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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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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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 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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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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