All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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 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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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