What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKIIt’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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