I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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 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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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