I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKII’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
More Mitski Quotes
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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.
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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 always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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