I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I’m not an innovator.
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I 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.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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