I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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