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.
MITSKII’m not an innovator.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I’m not an innovator.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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