Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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 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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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