I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I’m not an innovator.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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