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.
MITSKIPop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
More Mitski Quotes
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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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 music is supposed to be shared.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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