Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKII have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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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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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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