I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 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.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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