I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKII think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
More Mitski Quotes
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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.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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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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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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