The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making 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 think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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