I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKII don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I’m not an innovator.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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