I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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