I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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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 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 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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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