Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKII have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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 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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 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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