It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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 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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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