I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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