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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More Mitski Quotes
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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 punk, but I love gold.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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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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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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