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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More Mitski Quotes
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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