I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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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 you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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