Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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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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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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 really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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