I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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I 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.
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