I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
More Mitski Quotes
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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 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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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