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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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’m not an innovator.
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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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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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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 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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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 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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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