I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKII discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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 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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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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