I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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