I 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.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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 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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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