You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKII really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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