I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKII really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
More Mitski Quotes
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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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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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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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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’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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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