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.
MITSKII always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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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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