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.
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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 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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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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 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.
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