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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More Mitski Quotes
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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