I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKII could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
More Mitski Quotes
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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