Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
More Mitski Quotes
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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