I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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