I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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