You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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.
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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.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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