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.
MITSKIIt’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
More Mitski Quotes
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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