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.
MITSKIWith 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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 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 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 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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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