I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
More Mitski Quotes
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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