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.
MITSKIWhen you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
More Mitski Quotes
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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.
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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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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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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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