I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MITSKII always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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