When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
More Mitski Quotes
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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 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 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 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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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