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.
MITSKIWhen someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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 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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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