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.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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