It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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