I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’m not an innovator.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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