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.
MITSKII’m punk, but I love gold.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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 music is supposed to be shared.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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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 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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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