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Mitski
Mitski
Japanese Musician
Born: Sep 27, 1990
Because Me Music People Think You
Related authors: Ayumi Hamasaki Hiromi Uehara Ikue Mori Miyavi Namie Amuro OMI
It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over. Mitski
You Somebody Says About Tempting Over Like Very Want
The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. Mitski
Music Easiest Out Rushed Pick Journalists Certainly Whole Comparisons Appreciate
When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously. Mitski
Time You Yourself Seriously Young One Time Take Indulge Most Get Being
I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion. Mitski
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me. Mitski
Me Crisis Would Would-Be Identity Itself Where Place Found Ever Belonged
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. Mitski
Music Me Made Mine One Thing Able Could Take No-One Go Dictated Just The One Thing Created Let Go Thing
I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. Mitski
Happiness Alone Be Happy Happy Contentment Think Definition Rather More Only Maintain Obsessed Towards Ecstasy Than Trying Skewed
I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, I tend to not want to do that anymore. It's not even that I don't like it anymore: it's that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me. Mitski
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I'm not an innovator. Mitski
Innovator
I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art. Mitski
Art People Think How Making Artist Being Little Realize
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. Mitski
Food Me People Will Say Eat Tour Stereotype Know Always Becoming Want Rice Asian Ask Ever
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. 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. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously. Mitski
Time Me Seriously Doors Every Everything Once Say Seem Take Taken Instead Feel Longer Knock Like Times Privileges Different Turn Much Things Resistance Two
I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance. Mitski
Guidance Kind Fact Know Looked Any Problematic
Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've tried really hard to be what is expected of me or what would be advantageous to my career, and I just reached the point where I said, 'No, I'm an emotional loser. I can't pretend to not care.' Mitski
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into. Mitski
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When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness. Mitski
Sad You World Sadness Ending Think Teenager Everything Mellow Out About Adult Things
I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it. Mitski
Music Care About Emotion New Make Making dont Care Nostalgic Anything Express
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. Mitski
Own My Own Never Like Felt Lot Up Moved Anything Anywhere Really Growing Growing Up Belonged
A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant. Mitski
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You can never learn enough about music. Mitski
Music You Enough About Never Learn
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. Mitski
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I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' Mitski
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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. Mitski
Music Time Me Chill Think Make Get Hard Downtime
I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. Mitski
Later Out About Something More Write Discover Just Set
I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head. Mitski
Good Smart Head Am Doing Math Quickly Really
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. Mitski
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