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 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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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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 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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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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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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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