What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
More Mitski Quotes
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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