The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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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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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