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.
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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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.
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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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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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