I’m not an innovator.
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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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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.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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