I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I 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.
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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