I’m not an innovator.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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