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.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
More Mitski Quotes
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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