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.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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