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.
MITSKII guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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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 I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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