People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKII’m not an innovator.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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 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.
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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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