I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
MITSKIIf I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
More Mitski Quotes
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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 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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