I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKII’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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m not an innovator.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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