I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 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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You can never learn enough about music.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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