When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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’m not an innovator.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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