I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
MITSKII think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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 try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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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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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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