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.
MITSKIIt would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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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 I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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