With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
MITSKII’m punk, but I love gold.
More Mitski Quotes
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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