I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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 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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