I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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 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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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