You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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