You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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.
More Mitski Quotes
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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