I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 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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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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