Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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