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 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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I 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.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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