When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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