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.
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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making 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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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.
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