A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
MITSKIOften I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
More Mitski Quotes
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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’m not an innovator.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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