You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKII’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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On 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.
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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 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’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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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