If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
MITSKII really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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