Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKII think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
More Mitski Quotes
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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