I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKIIt would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
More Mitski Quotes
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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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 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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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