All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKII’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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