I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKII think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
More Mitski Quotes
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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’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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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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