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.
MITSKII don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
More Mitski Quotes
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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