It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKII’m punk, but I love gold.
More Mitski Quotes
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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