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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More Mitski Quotes
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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 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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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