Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
MITSKIWhat’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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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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