I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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