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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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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 music is supposed to be shared.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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