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.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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