When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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’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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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’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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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