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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
More Mitski Quotes
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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