I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
MITSKIMaybe 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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