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.
MITSKIOftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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’m not an innovator.
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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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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.
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