I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKII hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
More Mitski Quotes
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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 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 don’t want to be elitist.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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