I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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