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.
MITSKIBeing an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
More Mitski Quotes
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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