I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKII don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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