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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 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 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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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