When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
MITSKII wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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