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.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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