I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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 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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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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