I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I’m not an innovator.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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