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.
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
More Mitski Quotes
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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