I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKII hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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