Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKII actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
More Mitski Quotes
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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