Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKII always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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