Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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’m not an innovator.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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