Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKII took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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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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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 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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