I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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