I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKII know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
More Mitski Quotes
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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