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.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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