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.
MITSKII think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 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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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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