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.
MITSKIThere’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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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