When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 music is supposed to be shared.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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