On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 punk, but I love gold.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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 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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You can never learn enough about music.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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