Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
More Mitski Quotes
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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