I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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