I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKII don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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Often 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!’
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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