I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKIOn 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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