I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKII tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
More Mitski Quotes
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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