I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
MITSKII’m not an innovator.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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